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Reporting on Teachers Unions Has Been a Long Story. This Is the Last Page

November 15, 2023

California Teachers Association Continues to Lose Members and Raise Union Dues

November 6, 2023

‘Groundhog Day’: Public School Staffing Is Caught in a Time Loop

October 18, 2023

Did AFT Actually Add 30,000 New Members This Past Year? Well, Not Really

October 4, 2023

FBI and IRS Raid Local Teachers Union Headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida

September 21, 2023

Most Americans Love Unions — But Not Enough to Actually Join One

September 6, 2023

All Labor, No Management: When Principals Are Also Members of a Union

August 22, 2023

LeBron’s School Has Everything We’re Told Students Need. It’s Still Failing Them

LBGTQ Protections, Artificial Turf, Janus: What NEA Debated at Annual Convention

At Its Annual Convention, NEA Didn’t Practice What It Preaches about Democracy

Teachers Are Being Fined, Suspended for Quitting Before End of the School Year

Why Is New York City Paying Teachers Union Members $3,000 to Accept a 20% Raise?

From CA to MA, What Teachers Unions Have Been Doing in Statehouses Nationwide

Membership Dropped 70,000, Revenues Grew $49M for NEA & Affiliates During COVID

Has Teacher Pay Really Plummeted in the Last Decade? Yes — But Only Due to COVID

Oakland’s Teacher Strike Is Settled, But These Union Tactics Aren’t Going Away

Hot-Button Issues That Will & Won’t Be Addressed at the NEA Annual Convention

Los Angeles Pays a Steep Price for Labor Peace. Will the War Continue Anyway?

Some Unusual Twists as Hawaii Teachers Union Reaches Tentative Deal with State

Public-Sector Hiring Boomed Post-COVID. Union Membership Nationwide Did Not

Here We Go Again: L.A. Adds Instructional Days to Fight Learning Loss, Union Balks

Settling L.A. Strike Causes Future Problems While Trying to Solve Past Ones

As Schools Close for 3-Day Walkout, Could L.A. Strike Accelerate Learning Loss?

NY, Chicago, LA: Power Plays by the Nation’s 3 Largest Teachers Union Locals

How Teachers Union Politics Are Shaping the Chicago Mayor’s Race

Why Does NEA Want Julie Su to Be the Next Secretary of Labor?

February 22, 2023

Mergers and Acquisitions: How NEA's Membership Numbers Keep Going Up

February 15, 2023

California Teachers Union Lost Members at 587 of 995 Affiliates Since 2019

February 8, 2023

Ousted Teachers Union President Charged with Embezzling $411K from Virginia Local

February 1, 2023

Despite What the Unions Say, Membership Rates Hit Record Low in 2022

January 25, 2023

From Coast to Coast, What’s Going On with State & Local Teacher Union Affiliates

January 18, 2023

No Matter How You Do the Math, Numbers Don’t Add Up to a School Staffing Crisis

January 11, 2023

Lawsuits, Protests, Lobbying: Uproar as Retirees Fight NYC Unions over Medicare

January 5, 2023

The 10 Most Memorable Teachers Union Quotes of 2022

December 21, 2022

The NEA Collects $375 Million in Annual Dues. Here’s Where the Money Goes

December 15, 2022

Teachers Union Membership Drops by 59,000 Across the Nation

December 7, 2022

Early Results Show Union’s Favored School Board Candidates Win Big in California

November 21, 2022

Both Sides Claim Victory on Education, but No Clear Lessons from Midterms

November 15, 2022

California Teachers Unions Spending At Least $2.8 Million on 2022 Board Races

November 2, 2022

PACs Get Attention, but Teachers Unions Still Dominate School Board Elections

October 31, 2022

Teachers in 2 Mass. Districts Test Whether Walkouts Really Are Against the Law

October 19, 2022

Open Collective Bargaining — Something Everyone Can Agree On?

October 13, 2022

Union’s Survey About Why Teachers Leave Has Flaws, But Hints at Why They Stay

October 5, 2022

Labor Strife Smoldering in NEA’s Maryland, Ohio Affiliates

September 29, 2022

With COVID Aid Pouring in, School Funding Ballot Initiatives Scarce This Year

September 21, 2022

Seattle Teachers End Strike, Aiming for More Employees for Fewer Students

September 14, 2022

Miami Teachers Union President Running for Lieutenant Governor of Florida

September 7, 2022

L.A. Teachers Union Files Labor Complaint Against Voluntary Extra School Days

August 31, 2022

Minneapolis Teacher Layoff Exemption Based on Race — But Not the Way You Think

August 25, 2022

Analysis: ‘Teacher Shortage’ — A History Told in Numbers, and Decades

August 16, 2022

Analysis: Schools Closed, Membership Fell. NEA’s Take Still Rose by $35M in 2020

August 11, 2022

After Millions in Relief Funds, Why Won’t Schools Do More to Find Lost Students?

AFT Convention Seemed More Transparent Than NEA’s. But Looks Can Be Deceiving

Analysis: NEA Representative Assembly Sets Out to Solve the World’s Problems While Neglecting Its Own

Analysis: The NEA Representative Assembly Is Winding Down. Here’s What It Means

Analysis: NEA Calls For End to School Police Policies Union Previously Supported

Analysis: New York City Schools Take on Every Contentious Issue at Once

Guns, Gas and Governments: Why Teacher Pension Divestments Are Complicated

Exclusive: California Teachers Union Expects to Lose 4,000 Members, Gain $2.3M

Analysis: Powers-That-Be Triumph in Union Elections in NYC, Chicago and MA

Analysis: Salaries, School Spending & Inflation — When the Numbers Don’t Add Up

Is 'Per-Pupil Spending' Really an Accurate Description?

Which is More Important — Teachers Contract or Real Vaccination Cards?

Can an Opposition Coalition Oust UFT's Leadership?

Analysis: Amid Push for Collective Bargaining, Virginia Education Association Takes Control of Second Large Local in 5 Months

For and Against Teacher Candidate Test — at the Same Time

As Sacramento Teachers Strike, State Union Membership Shows Accelerated Losses

Minneapolis School Board Member Quits After Strike Protest At His Home

Minneapolis' Troubles Have Just Begun

Minneapolis Teachers Strike, St. Paul Reaches Tentative Agreement

High Drama Over Chicago Teachers Union's May Election

February 16, 2022

Where Has Public-Sector Union Membership Dropped, and Where Has It Risen?

February 9, 2022

Will 2022 Be the Year Teachers Union Dissidents Win?

February 2, 2022

Union Membership Declined in 2021 — No Amount of Spin Can Change That

January 26, 2022

After Boycotting Texas, America’s Top Union to Move Annual Convention to Chicago

January 18, 2022

What Does 'Safe' Mean When It Comes to Schools & COVID — Who Gets to Decide?

January 13, 2022

'Dark Money,' Classroom Culture Wars & the National Education Association

January 6, 2022

2021's Top 10 Quotes About Teachers, Unions & Education

December 21, 2021

Union Membership Dropped During Year of Pandemic School Closures

December 15, 2021

Exclusive: NEA Cancels July Convention in Texas Boycott

December 7, 2021

How Much School Funding Goes to Salaries & Benefits?

December 1, 2021

When the Teachers Union Tries to Unseat School Board Members

November 17, 2021

Education Politics: Teachers Unions Aim to Rewrite History on School Reopenings

November 9, 2021

VA State Teachers Union Places Large Local in Trusteeship

November 3, 2021

NEA Membership Down 9% Since '09, But Finances & Influence Still Going Strong

October 26, 2021

How Shuttered Schools Could Still Spend More

October 14, 2021

State-by-State Breakdown of How Often Schools Call the Cops

October 6, 2021

Are There Vaccine Mandates in Schools Or Not?

September 29, 2021

How Much School Policy Is Based on Perception Instead of Knowledge?

September 14, 2021

Mask Mandates, Vaccine Mandates & Collective Bargaining

September 1, 2021

Financial Numbers Show How Top Union Was Affected By Janus Verdict, #RedforEd

August 25, 2021

Inside Teachers Unions' Tone Shift on Vaccine Mandates

August 18, 2021

Are 90 Percent of Teachers Really Vaccinated Against COVID-19?

August 10, 2021

NEA Affiliates Could Use Some More Oversight

AFT Mississippi Affiliate Alleges Cover-Up, Embezzlement

Critical Race Theory, Plummeting Delegate Head Count at NEA Assembly

NEA Continued to Lose Working Members in 2020

NEA Budget Is a Lesson in Reading Between the Lines

Teachers’ Unions Leverage Reopenings

Unions, Membership and Getting Police Out of the Schools

Analysis: With $122 Billion in School Rescue Funds, Unions Eye Hiring Spree

Did Teachers Union’s Pressure Reshape CDC’s School Reopening Guidelines?

COVID-19 Had Little Effect on Teacher Job Retention

A Model of Nonunion Representation Is Under Fire

Kentucky #RedforEd Group Joins AFT

Analysis: Randi Weingarten Says Her AFT Has Been ‘Trying to Reopen Schools Since Last April.’ What the Union’s Locals Actually Did

Analysis: A Split Between Biden and Teachers Unions on Reopening Schools? There Are 122 Billion Reasons Why It Doesn’t Matter

New Numbers: The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers Now Represent 1 in 4 U.S. Union Members

Analysis: What Will School Staffing Look Like Over the Next 10 Years? Federal Stats Predict 1 Additional Teacher for Every 2 Additional Students

Analysis: Pandemic or No, It’s Political Business as Usual for the California Teachers Association

February 25, 2021

Analysis: What Emails Show About How Cardona Worked With Teachers Unions in Connecticut — and What That Could Mean For Reopening Schools as Education Secretary

February 17, 2021

Antonucci: Biden Set a Goal of Returning Students to Classrooms in 100 Days, But It’s Not the President (Nor Any Governor or Mayor) Who Holds the Real Power to Reopen Schools

February 9, 2021

Analysis: A National Teacher Strike Isn’t Really Possible. But With Unions Refusing to Go Back Until Classrooms Are Safe, This is What One Would Look Like

February 2, 2021

Analysis: Are Teachers Unions Really Taking Over Biden’s Department of Education? Not So Fast

January 26, 2021

Analysis: Teachers Unions Want a Seat at the Table When It Comes to Reopening Schools — But They Don’t Want It to Be the Hot Seat. That’s Why They Keep Moving the Goalposts

January 20, 2021

Analysis: Teachers Unions Are Positioning to Negotiate How and When Schools Will Reopen. Money, Not Safety, Will Decide

January 12, 2021

Analysis: In 2008, the NEA Demanded a Limited Federal Role in Education. Its Policy Wish List for 2021 Is Very Different

January 6, 2021

Analysis: From School Cafeteria ‘Salad Girl’ to U.S. Secretary of Education? The Rise of Former NEA President Lily Eskelsen García

December 7, 2020

Analysis: NEA Wants an End to Tax Breaks for the Rich. With its Hundreds of Millions in Tax-Free Revenue, Those Pleas Ring Hollow

December 2, 2020

Analysis: From School Spending to a Possible Cabinet Post, What Does a Post-Trump World Look Like for Teachers Unions?

November 13, 2020

Analysis: Money Is No Object as the California Teachers Association Tries to Eke Out a Property Tax Ballot Victory

October 28, 2020

Analysis: How Much NEA and AFT Are Spending on the 2020 Campaign, and Where They Are Spending It

October 21, 2020

Analysis: American Federation of Teachers Membership Rose in 2020 — or Fell, Depending on How You Look at It

October 14, 2020

Analysis: To Preserve Their Exclusive Right to Representation, NEA, AFT and Other Major Unions Will Even Buy Into Janus Ruling

October 6, 2020

Exclusive: Salary Cuts, Pension Debt and Charges of Racism — Teachers Unions Clash With Their Own Employees

September 23, 2020

Analysis: From Virtual Picket Lines to Remote-Only Walkouts, What Would a COVID-19 Teacher Strike Look Like? Would It Make Any Difference?

September 15, 2020

Analysis: Just Like School Reopening Policies, Education Staffing Is All Over the Place. Here’s What Some of the Job Numbers Show

September 11, 2020

Analysis: Delegates to AFT’s Virtual Convention Have a Very Long Wish List. That Doesn’t Mean the Democrats, If They Win, Will Go Along

August 19, 2020

Analysis: NEA Endorses Biden by Largest Margin in 24 Years — but With Fewer Delegates Voting — at Virtual Convention

August 14, 2020

Analysis: California’s State Budget Has Big Benefits for Teachers Union, Stifles Charter Schools and Funds Phantom Students

Analysis: Michigan Teachers Union & Its Health Insurance Trust Raked In at Least $11 Million in Small Business Bailout Money

Analysis: NEA’s Membership May Drop, but Its Budget Continues to Grow. So Do Affiliates’ Dues

Analysis: NEA Lost Almost 33,000 Working Members in 2019. Here’s the State-by-State Breakdown

Analysis: Police Unions Stonewall All Attempts at Reform. So Do Teachers Unions. Is That Why They’ve Been So Silent?

Analysis: Reimagining Schools — or Reverting to Pre-COVID Classes? As States & Teachers Unions Draft Plans for an Unknown Future, Will They Even Work?

Analysis: NEA Board, PAC Council Endorse Biden for President. Representative Assembly Will Weigh In by Mail in July

Analysis: Schools and Their Unions Have Responded Admirably to the Coronavirus Crisis. What Happens to Labor Relations Now?

Analysis: The National Education Association Cancels Atlanta Assembly, Will Hold Limited Virtual Convention in July

Analysis: National Education Association Abruptly Endorses Joe Biden, Angering Sanders Supporters

Analysis: The New Haven Teachers Union Is Redoing Its Election. The Reason Involves Gift Cards, Personal Loans & Accusations of Extortion

February 19, 2020

Analysis: Virginia Education Association Wants Collective Bargaining for Teachers — but Talks With Its Own Employees Led to Lawsuits, Sanctions

February 12, 2020

Union Report: Will NEA and AFT Ever Merge? They Last Tried in 1998. Things Are Much Different Now

February 5, 2020

Union Report: New Year, Same Old Decline in Union Membership. But the Teachers Unions Are Still Big Fish in a Shrinking Pond

January 28, 2020

Analysis: Tracking the NEA’s and AFT’s $43 Million in Donations to PACs, Advocacy Organizations, Nonprofits — and the State Engagement Fund?

January 22, 2020

Union Report: The Numbers Are Complicated, but AFT Is Worth Around $580 Million, Financial Filings Show

January 14, 2020

Union Report: #GreenForEd? NEA and Its State Affiliates Took In $1.6 Billion in 2018, Federal Disclosures Show

January 8, 2020

Union Report: From Freeloaders, Robber Barons and ‘Acts of Terror’ to Jesus, Politics and the ‘Jail Community,’ the Decade’s Top Education Quotes

January 1, 2020

Analysis: How Much Does NEA Spend on Politics? Union Poured More Than $4.6 Million Into State Ballot Initiatives

December 10, 2019

Analysis: The NEA’s State of the Union — As Active Membership Declines by More Than 29,000, Political Spending Soars 36 Percent

December 4, 2019

Union Report: L.A. Teachers Union’s Endorsement of Bernie Sanders May Affect the Union More Than It Does the Sanders Campaign

December 1, 2019

Union Report: Bargaining for the Common Good Is Neither Common Nor Good. But It Makes for Great Public Relations

November 20, 2019

Union Report: In Pushing Members to Back Sanders, L.A. Union President Dismisses Biden, Warren — Says Clinton, Obama Weren’t So Great Either

November 6, 2019

Union Report: A Look at the Before-and-After of the Chicago Teacher Strike Raises the Question — Was the Walkout Worth It?

November 4, 2019

Union Report: NEA Affiliate in Las Vegas Surrenders 30% of Members to Teamsters. Is This the Start of New Labor Arrangement?

October 30, 2019

Union Report: Whom Will the Teachers Unions Endorse for President? 2 Political Case Studies May Offer Some Clues

October 23, 2019

Union Report: Teachers Unions See Modest Membership Losses in 2018-19 School Year — Janus Decision Having Little Effect, So Far

October 16, 2019

Union Report: The Looming Chicago Teacher Strike May Be As Much About Membership As It Is About Money

October 13, 2019

Union Report: When Unions Open Their Own Charter Schools — Lessons From California’s Kwachiiyoa Elementary

October 2, 2019

Union Report: Great New Essay Tells the Truth About Teacher Pay. Unfortunately, in Ed World, the Truth Is Just Another Story

September 24, 2019

Union Report: As One Teacher Union Front Group Exposed, Another Takes Its Place

September 18, 2019

Union Report: Read Across America, the NEA’s Most Successful Public Relations Campaign, Gets a Makeover

September 11, 2019

Union Report: In the Byzantine World of American Federation of Teachers Membership, Numbers Just Don’t Add Up

September 3, 2019

Union Report: New Federal Regulation Could Extend Financial Disclosure Rule to All State-Level NEA Affiliates

August 20, 2019

Union Report: Janus Isn’t NEA’s Only Problem — State Affiliates Have Been Losing Membership Since Long Before the Supreme Court Ruling

August 14, 2019

Union Report: 19,000-Member California State University Affiliate Cuts Ties With State Union, NEA in Major Blow to National Organization

Union Report: NEA’s New ‘Community Allies’ Membership Could Mean Million-Dollar Shot in the Arm to Union’s Political Action Committee

Union Report: Mysterious Turnovers of Top Staff May Come as a Surprise, but They Are the Norm for the NEA and Its Affiliates

Analysis — Why Charter School Supporters Shouldn’t Get Too Excited About That NEA Vote on Endorsements: Any Political Litmus Tests Are Still Up to the Union President

Union Report: ‘Community Allies,’ Control Over Locals, Charter School Reports & Impeachment — How Delegates Voted at NEA Convention

Analysis: Fresh Concerns About the Financial Game of ‘Musical Chairs’ Behind California’s Teacher Retirement System

Union Report: One Year Later, It’s Clear — the Janus Effect Is Not Yet What Either Side Had Hoped for, or Feared

Mixed Results From New NEA Membership Numbers Pre-Janus Ruling, Post 2018 Teacher Walkouts in W. Va., Okla. and Ariz.

Union Report: #RedForEd, Read Across America and ‘Inoculation’ Projects — How the NEA Media Fund Influences Public Opinion

Analysis: Historic 14-Day Teacher Strike in New Haven, California, Ends With Deal in Which Educators Lost Money

Union Report: What NEA Did — and Didn’t — Do to Follow Up on Delegates’ Desires After 2018 Convention

Antonucci: As L.A. Voters Weigh a Parcel Tax, Here’s a Stroll Through 31 Years of California School Funding Claims

Union Report: The National Education Association Just Lost Another Large Local Affiliate. Could More of These Union Walkouts Reshape the Labor Landscape?

Exclusive: New Hampshire Delegates Will Not Attend National NEA Convention, Citing Anti-Immigrant and LGBTQ Policies in Texas

Exclusive: National Education Association May Lose Thousands of Las Vegas Members If City’s Bus Drivers, Food Service Workers & Custodians Shift to Teamsters

Union Report: National Education Association to Seek Direct Trusteeship Over Rebellious Local Affiliates in Bylaw Proposed for July Delegate Vote

Union Report: Weingarten’s Speech Teaches National Press Club to Beware of Statistics — and to Check Her Sources

Union Report: When It Comes to Double-Dipping Pensions, Union Officials Are Happy to Take — but Not So Happy to Give

Analysis: As Teacher Strikes and Grassroots Uprisings Give Way to a New Wave of Organized Rallies, Unions Look to Channel Educators’ Energy

Union Report: Kentucky Unions Join Up to Try to Subdue ‘Rogue Groups’ Staging Teacher Sickouts

Union Report: Paranoia? Conspiracy Theories? Apocalyptic Pronouncements? All Alive and Well at the NEA’s Annual Leadership Summit

Antonucci: As Strike Fever Sweeps California, Something New in Sacramento: Teachers Union Has a Contract But May Walk Out Anyway

Union Report: Job Cuts, a Strike Threat and a Sexual Misconduct Lawsuit — Union Updates From California, Colorado, Kentucky, Oregon and D.C.

Analysis: A Proposed Parcel Tax in Los Angeles May Give to the City’s Teachers With One Hand — While Taking From Them With the Other

Union Report: How Much Control Do Unions Have Over Teacher Protests? In Some States, a Lot. In Others, None at All

Union Report: In the Past 3 Years, NEA Has Lost 2 Major Locals. Now It Is Creating Roadblocks to Keep More From Seceding

Union Report: L.A. and Oakland Teachers Ended Their Strikes With Very Different Settlements — but Long Term, the Results Are the Same

Union Report: When Will Teacher Strikes End? When the Unions’ Cost-Benefit Analysis Finds Them to No Longer Be Profitable

February 27, 2019

Union Report: Oakland Teachers Are Set to Strike. Just Like in L.A., a ‘Leap of Faith’ Will Be Needed to End It

February 20, 2019

Union Report: On the Heels of L.A. Strike, Expect Some Similar Tactics If Oakland Teachers Walk Out — but on a Smaller Scale

February 13, 2019

Analysis: Behind the Denver Teacher Strike, the Union Cites a ‘Crisis’ in Staff Turnover. But the Numbers Tell a Much Different Story

February 12, 2019

Union Report: Did the 2018 Teacher Walkouts Reduce Membership Losses From Janus? The Answer Seems to Be Both Yes — and No

February 6, 2019

Union Report: When It Comes to Messaging Around Membership and Janus, Unions Get an F in Math & History

January 29, 2019

Union Report: Why Both the L.A. Teachers Union and the District Needed the Strike to Happen

January 23, 2019

Union Report: Local Government Unions Grew Post-Janus — but News Wasn’t So Good for States or Feds in Just-Released Federal Stats

January 22, 2019

Union Report: NEA and Its State Affiliates Are a $1.62 Billion Enterprise. Here’s a Breakdown of Their Membership and Finances

January 17, 2019

Analysis: L.A. Teachers Cite Class Size as a Key Reason for Striking, but Their Union Has Agreed With That Part of Their Contract for at Least 18 Years

January 15, 2019

Union Report: Are Teachers Quitting at Record Rate? Actually, They Leave Their Jobs at Lower Rates Than Almost Everyone Else

January 8, 2019

Analysis: As Los Angeles Braces for Its First Teacher Strike in a Generation, Some Echoes Resonate From 1989

January 7, 2019

The 10 Most Memorable Teacher Union Quotes of 2018

January 1, 2019

The Unwritten Story of Chicago’s Charter School Teacher Strike: Unions See Walkouts as Survival Tool

December 11, 2018

Union Report: How Many Affiliates Can NEA Prop Up? So Far, There Are 4 — and They Haven’t Always Been Good Bets for the National Union

December 5, 2018

Antonucci: This Is What It Looks Like When Teacher Unions Fight Their Own Employees

November 28, 2018

Antonucci: The Showdown Between Los Angeles and Its Teachers Union Enters a Final Phase, as Teachers, District Leaders and Families Prepare for Possible January Strike

November 26, 2018

Union Report: Election Results, #RedForEd, and the NEA: Lessons From Teacher-Candidates About This Year’s Vote — and the Next One

November 14, 2018

Election-Day Final Sinks Teachers Running for Office in Three Education Battleground States

November 7, 2018

Seven Questions About All Those ‘Educators Running for Office’ Stories

October 30, 2018

Union Report Exclusive: Internal Report Shows NEA Losses of 17,000 Members and 87,000 Fee Payers Since Janus Decision

October 24, 2018

How to Elect — and Get Rid of — a Teacher Union President

October 16, 2018

Union Report: Maryland Teacher Union Numbers Show Drop In Membership, Market Share Since Supreme Court’s Janus Ruling

October 9, 2018

Meet the NEA Republicans: The National Education Association Just Recommended 289 House Candidates — Including These 10 Conservatives

October 2, 2018

Analysis: Teacher Unions Focusing Efforts on Eight States as They Look to Impact 2018 Midterms — and Control of the Senate

September 26, 2018

Antonucci: When Is a Teacher Strike Legal, and What Happens If Los Angeles’s Teachers Union Walks Out This Week?

September 24, 2018

Union Report: Remember the ‘Havoc’ Janus Was Supposed to Cause? What Happened With That?

September 19, 2018

Union Report: A Los Angeles Teacher Strike Seems Inevitable. Does the 2012 Chicago Walkout Hold the Key to a Solution?

September 17, 2018

Union Report: Membership Remains High, but Teacher Unions Make It Difficult to Leave

September 13, 2018

Union Report: Teachers Union Employees Stage Job Actions — Against Teachers Unions

September 5, 2018

Teachers Unions Claim They Are Beating Back Janus’s Threat, but It May Take More Than a Year to Really Know

August 22, 2018

LeBron James’s New School Has Bikes, Chromebooks, and, More Important, a Flexible School District and an Independent Teachers Union

August 15, 2018

Union Report: Prediction — Los Angeles Teachers Will Go Out on Strike in October

Union Report: More Bad News for Unions — Many May Have to Disclose Their Finances

Analysis: Why the American Federation of Teachers Is Uniquely Vulnerable to the Supreme Court’s Janus Verdict on Mandatory Union Fees

Why Los Angeles & Chicago Teachers Are Pushing the American Federation of Teachers Further Left on Political Endorsements

NEA’s Gambit to Increase Membership Is Defeated in Vote; Leadership Pledges to Try Again Next Year

NEA Budget Cuts Don’t Include Executives’ Salaries

Analysis: NEA Membership Rises In Agency Fee States Where Janus Decision Would Hurt Most, Down Elsewhere

Antonucci: In California, Mixed Signals From One Teachers Union Stalls a Ballot Initiative to Gut Prop 13 & Boost Education Funding, Punting Fight to 2020

The California Teachers Association Slashes Budget by More Than $20 Million Ahead of Janus Supreme Court Ruling, Expects to Lose 23,000 Members

Union Report: NEA Members Want More Say in How Union Decides Presidential Endorsements. But Leaders Are Refusing to Loosen Their Grip

Union Report: NEA Members Want More Say in How Union Decides Presidential Endorsements. But Leaders Are Refusing to Loosen Their Grip

Antonucci: What If the Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Teachers Unions in the Janus Case?

Exclusive: Ahead of a Key Supreme Court Decision, America’s Largest Teachers Union Slashes Budget by $50 Million, Projects That 300,000 Members May Leave

How to Stage a Successful Teacher Strike in 4 Easy Steps

Refusing to Leave $6M in Dues on the Table, NEA Confronts Complications as It Tries to Hold On to Las Vegas Teachers Union

Vegas Split — Clark County Teachers Union Cuts Ties to National Education Association, Major Loss to Largest U.S. Labor Union

Union Report — NEA Conference Reveals Disconnect Between How One Teachers Union Trains Its Staff vs. How It Talks in Public

Oklahoma’s Teacher Walkout: How Did Something That Started So Right End So Wrong?

Union Report: How Much Control Do Unions Have Over Teacher Walkouts in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Arizona? Not as Much as You’d Think

Analysis — A Reality Check About the Education Labor Arms Race: Oklahoma & W. Virginia Are Not Game Changers. Neither Is Janus

Nevada Union and Its Largest Local Could Be Headed For a Quickie Divorce

Analysis: The National Education Association — a $1.6 Billion Enterprise With a Red-Ink Problem

Antonucci: Never Heard of UniServ? It Holds the National Education Association Together — and Could Tear It Apart

Why Teacher Strikes Aren’t Like Other Strikes (Hint: Teachers Often Get Paid)

Through the Janus Looking Glass: What If Teachers Unions Respond to Lost Agency Fees by Refusing to Represent Non-Members?

February 28, 2018

Union Report: In West Virginia, 15,000 Teachers Are Planning a Walkout. The Strike Is Illegal — but It Shouldn’t Be

February 21, 2018

Union Report: Why the NEA’s ‘Congressional Report Card’ Says Less About Congress Than It Does About the State of Democratic Party Politics

February 14, 2018

‘Where Hope Goes to Die’: What It’s Like to Work for a Teachers Union — as Detailed by 13 Disgruntled Employees

February 7, 2018

As Union Membership Drops Among Teachers, Will Weaker States Survive Janus?

February 5, 2018

As Union Membership Drops Among Teachers, Will Weaker States Survive Janus?

January 31, 2018

Union Membership Posts Modest Increase Across U.S. Despite Decline Among Local Government Workers

January 23, 2018

Analysis: The ‘One Percent’ Leaders of America’s Top Teachers Unions, All Making More Than $300,000 a Year

January 10, 2018

Union Report: The 10 Most Memorable Teachers Union Quotes of 2017

December 19, 2017

Union Report: The National Education Association Assails Corporations … When Not Making Money From Them

December 12, 2017

Analysis: Inside the Financial Collapse of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

December 6, 2017

Analysis: Five Common Teachers Union Arguments — That Rely on Half-Truths

November 29, 2017

NYSUT’s Secretary-Treasurer, Who Teaches Full Time and Manages Union Finances on Weekends, Resigns from Management Post

November 20, 2017

Antonucci: New Jersey’s Teachers Union Doesn’t Care What You Think

November 15, 2017

Analysis: Why Millennials Can’t Save Unions

November 8, 2017

Analysis: Teachers Unions Will Argue in Court That ‘Agency Fees’ Don’t Fund Political Activities. But They’re Saying Something Different to Members

October 31, 2017

Union Report: 8 Ways the NEA Plans to Keep Power, Money, Members If SCOTUS Ends Mandatory Dues

October 25, 2017

Analysis: Teacher Turnover Is High — Except When You Compare Teaching to Other Professions

October 18, 2017

NYSUT Secretary-Treasurer Teaches Full Time, Manages Union Finances on Nights and Weekends

October 11, 2017

Why Did the American Federation of Teachers Give More Money to a Magazine Than Its Own State Branches?

October 5, 2017

Union Report: Top NEA Leader Promises a Progressive ‘Uprising,’ but Is He Part of the Establishment Problem?

October 4, 2017

Union Report: Teacher Hold ’Em in Nevada, as Fractious Union and Its Largest Local Trade Lawsuits

September 28, 2017

Antonucci: Why Do So Many Union Members Enjoy Reading Coverage That’s Critical of Their Leadership?

September 21, 2017

Union Report: When NEA Speaks to National Press Club, the Faces Change but Song Stays the Same

September 13, 2017

Analysis: When Unions Don’t Protect Teachers’ Jobs

September 6, 2017

Analysis: Have We Hired Too Many Teachers? Scholar Warns of Economic ‘Time Bomb’

August 29, 2017

Exclusive: Teachers Union Document Reveals Master Plan for Unionizing Charter School Networks

August 15, 2017

Analysis: Teachers Union Adds 40,000 Offshore Members While Labor Rolls Stagnate at Home

Analysis: Which Bothers Randi Weingarten More — Segregation or School Choice?

Six Secrets the National Education Association Keeps About Its Business Dealings

Analysis: How the California Teachers Union Is Spending Its Summer

Antonucci: NEA’s New Charter Schools Policy Isn’t New, Just Matches Union’s Long-Held Action Plan

Union Report: After 19 Memorable Years, My Farewell to the Annual National Education Association Convention

Analysis: NEA Membership Declined in 27 States, and One Where It Grew — NY — Is Anything but Typical

Analysis: Janus Ruling Could Force Unions to Compete for Members

Union Report: The Sad Triviality of the National Education Association’s Annual Conference

Analysis: Boycotts? Endorsements? Not So Fast — NEA Top Brass Reins in Activist Members

Janus v. AFSCME: Lawyers in Key Union Case Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court for 2017–18 Hearing

Teachers Unions Prepare for Thousands of Lost Members as New Case Moves Toward the Supreme Court

Opinion: State Union Rankings Show Strength of Labor Depends on Size of Government

Analysis: From ‘Incarceration Pay’ to ‘Rule of 75,’ Surprising Contract Benefits for Teachers Union Staffers

Analysis: A Brief Summary of the Bizarre (and Sometimes Funny) Things You Didn’t Know Were in Teacher Contracts

Analysis: In Anonymous Poll, Employees of Florida’s Teachers Union Decry Working Conditions

Analysis: A May Day March to ‘Reclaim Schools’ — Previewing Teachers Unions’ Day of ‘Action’

Exclusive — The California Teachers Association Has a Whole Lot of Money to Burn: Here’s How It Spends It

Analysis: My Union Has More Money Than Your Union

Antonucci: Can Nevada’s Teachers Union Survive?

Analysis: Are NYSUT’s Finances a ‘Ponzi Scheme’? Former Financial Analyst Sounds the Alarm

Analysis: Internal Documents Show Few Union Members Volunteered for Massachusetts Anti-Charter Campaign

Analysis: Have the Unions Benefited From the DeVos Confirmation Fight?

Analysis — New York’s Teachers Unions Are Millions in the Red: A Look at the Numbers

Analysis: The NEA’s 5 Financially Shakiest States

February 22, 2017

Analysis: Was Hillary’s Union Support Limited to (Some of) the Public Sector?

February 14, 2017

Analysis: The One Senator Teachers Unions Might Have Swayed on DeVos Is the One Who Couldn’t Vote ‘No’

February 7, 2017

Analysis: Facing Threats, Can Public-Sector Unions Learn From the Demise of Industrial Workers?

January 31, 2017

Analysis: The Strange Disappearance of 69,000 AFT Members

January 24, 2017

Antonucci: How Representative Are NEA’s Representatives?

January 18, 2017

Analysis: The U.S. Department of Education — Born in the NEA

January 11, 2017

Antonucci: The 10 Most Memorable Teachers Union Quotes of 2016

January 3, 2017

Analysis: The Hundred-Year Teacher Shortage

December 20, 2016

Analysis: With Question 2 Defeated, Mass. Teachers Turn to Ambitious Legislative Agenda

December 13, 2016

Analysis: California Is Still the Golden State for Teacher Unions

November 29, 2016

Analysis: Did Teachers Unions Learn Anything From Hillary’s Loss?

November 22, 2016

Analysis: 6 Upsides of a Tough Election for Teachers’ Unions

November 15, 2016

Analysis: The Tale of Teacher Attrition Takes Some JOLTS

November 1, 2016

What Hillary Told the NEA

October 25, 2016

Analysis: How NEA Brass Made Sure the Union Endorsed Clinton — Even If It Didn’t Want To

October 18, 2016

Analysis: Teachers Unions Decry “Outside Money” in Politics, but They’re the Source of a Lot of It

October 12, 2016

Analysis: There Still Isn’t a Teacher Shortage Again

October 4, 2016

Analysis: Now Critics, Unions Supported Build-Up of Police in Schools for Years

September 27, 2016

Analysis: New Warnings of Teacher Shortage Sound Like Déjà Vu All Over Again

September 20, 2016

Analysis: Unions Have Cash but Not Partners in Fight Against MA Charter Proposal

September 13, 2016

Analysis: How the NEA Came to Love Citizens United

September 7, 2016

Analysis: When the National Education Association Fights With Its Own Breakaway Locals

August 31, 2016

Analysis — When Teachers Unions Become The Man: Why Union Employees Are Fighting for Better Contracts

August 23, 2016

Analysis: Act Locally, Think Nationally — The NEA’s Plan to Capture America’s Hearts & Minds

August 16, 2016

Analysis: Los Angeles Teachers Head Is Ready to Incite A ‘State Crisis’ If Union Demands Are Not Met

August 10, 2016

Analysis: 3 Things America’s Biggest Teachers Union Will Expect From a Clinton White House

Opinion: Why the Friedrichs Court Case Will Give Teachers More Power — and Better Pay

Mike Antonucci & Michael J. Petrilli

September 27, 2015