The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers (the nation’s two largest teachers’ unions) are calling on Congress to develop a national public database that compiles the names…
Texas is now the second state in the nation, joining Alaska, to issue an opinion in support of protecting public employees' First Amendment rights that were restored in the U.S.…
The states with the higher percentages of public-sector union members are overwhelmingly Democratic, and those with the lower percentages are overwhelmingly Republican.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2018 Janus decision, Center of the American Experiment has been helping Minnesotans fight for their right to say no to financially supporting government unions.
Given the economic devastation COVID-19 has unleashed, the cost of underfunding pensions is now even more in the spotlight. States that failed to use more than a decade of economic growth…
Two Minnesota building materials employees won a settlement against their former employer after being illegally fired for not joining a union.
The Los Angeles teachers' union has resorted to using the COVID-19 outbreak crisis as a ploy to stop charter school growth.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's wish list includes many union giveaways that would cripple private employers who accept stimulus funding or loans.
The Saint Paul Federation of Educators has stated the union "settled" for the district's wage increase proposal of 1.5 percent this year and 2 percent next year, which will still…
The National Education Association has backed Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden for president, calling Biden a “tireless advocate for public education.” But many members aren't pleased the union rushed into announcing…
The Saint Paul Federation of Educators and its members have ended a three-day strike that kept 36,000 students out of the classroom. A tentative agreement on the new two-year collective…
The Saint Paul Federation of Educators has scheduled a strike for Tuesday over the lack of progress at the bargaining table between the teachers’ union and the Saint Paul Public…
The job sector is facing two issues: (1) employers cannot find qualified individuals to fill positions in their companies (2) individuals do not qualify for high paying high skilled jobs.…
I recently posted on the Department of Labor’s proposed federal regulation that would improve the financial transparency and democratic procedures of unions. The Center, along with many other organizations across…
Last Thursday, the St. Paul teachers’ union held a vote to authorize a strike. The strike would be in response to stalled negotiations with the district over a new two-year…
The Center submitted comments recently to the U.S. Department of Labor in support of a proposed rule that would increase the financial transparency and democratic procedures of labor unions.
Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has not been shy about his mission to take on the National Rifle Association, but remarks he made in 2013 comparing the organization to two…
Proposed legislation in Florida would change how public-sector employees join, resign from, and pay membership dues to unions. Minnesota should follow suit.
Tomorrow the United States House of Representatives is expected to vote on the PRO Act (H.R. 2474), a bill that would eliminate workers’ rights to choose to join a union. Catrin…
Government unions aren’t happy their grip on public employees’ paychecks has been loosened. So, they hide behind bureaucratic minutiae to prevent dissatisfied members from leaving and have even resorted to…
The National Education Association—the country’s largest teachers’ union—recently released its Legislative Report Card for the 116th Congress. The union gave each member of Congress a letter grade of A through…
New data released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics reveal the percent of workers who were members of unions in 2019 was 10.3 percent—a record low since 1983, according…
The Center joins effort to limit labor unions.
I find it odd that these are the union’s priorities, but I probably shouldn’t be so surprised. I guess I hoped Education Minnesota would set aside its one-sided political agenda…