Each year, Education Minnesota charges member teachers and education support professionals (ESPs) $25.00 for its political action committee (PAC). PAC money is spent on political parties, candidates, and other political…
If teachers and other educators would like to protect their constitutional right to not fund the union’s PAC, the process to get the forced $25 contribution refunded is not easy.…
Mayo Clinic nurses vote the union out.
Minnesota’s state labor policies continue to undermine worker and taxpayer rights, according to a recent report on public-sector labor laws by the Commonwealth Foundation. The report gave Minnesota a “D”…
Minnesota educators, your once-a-year-only opportunity to resign from union membership will end this Friday, September 30. If you have decided that union membership is no longer the best choice for…
Keeping to Education Minnesota’s political history of almost exclusively, with rare exceptions, supporting one political party and its affiliates, the teachers’ union magazine lists its endorsed candidates for this year’s…
September is the annual opportunity for Minnesota educators who are union members to assess their relationship with Education Minnesota, the state’s teachers’ union. Many teachers are concerned about how their…
Public-sector unions fought for — and won — the right to represent all employees within their bargaining unit, regardless of union membership status. Because government unions have exclusive representation rights as a…
As you busily prepare your classrooms for a new school year — or have already welcomed students back! — we want to remind Minnesota educators that the month of September…
For decades, teachers’ unions have flexed their political muscle, seeking to convince both their members and the general public that their involvement in and prioritization of political issues is for…
This week we celebrate public-sector employees’ rights and their freedom to choose. While government workers’ rights regarding union membership were restored in 2018, barriers still remain. Union membership is a…
It may not be as contagious as Covid, but for the second time in as many weeks nurses at a Mayo hospital in southern Minnesota have voted to end union…
The National Education Association (NEA) held its annual meeting and representative assembly over the Fourth of July holiday, as it does every year. But unlike years past, the union’s business…
Four years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Janus v. AFSCME decision (June 27, 2018) freed millions of public employees across the country from being forced to subsidize government unions’…
More than 200 of the 500 nurses with the Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board seeking a vote to decertify…
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten’s gross salary was over $426,000 from 2020-2021, according to the union’s federal LM-2 filing cited in a report by Americans for Fair…