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
Analysis: Virginia Education Association Wants Collective Bargaining for Teachers — but Talks With Its Own Employees Led to Lawsuits, Sanctions
Union Report: Will NEA and AFT Ever Merge? They Last Tried in 1998. Things Are Much Different Now
Union Report: New Year, Same Old Decline in Union Membership. But the Teachers Unions Are Still Big Fish in a Shrinking Pond
Analysis: Tracking the NEA’s and AFT’s $43 Million in Donations to PACs, Advocacy Organizations, Nonprofits — and the State Engagement Fund?
Union Report: The Numbers Are Complicated, but AFT Is Worth Around $580 Million, Financial Filings Show
Union Report: #GreenForEd? NEA and Its State Affiliates Took In $1.6 Billion in 2018, Federal Disclosures Show
Union Report: From Freeloaders, Robber Barons and ‘Acts of Terror’ to Jesus, Politics and the ‘Jail Community,’ the Decade’s Top Education Quotes
Analysis: How Much Does NEA Spend on Politics? Union Poured More Than $4.6 Million Into State Ballot Initiatives
Analysis: The NEA’s State of the Union — As Active Membership Declines by More Than 29,000, Political Spending Soars 36 Percent
Union Report: L.A. Teachers Union’s Endorsement of Bernie Sanders May Affect the Union More Than It Does the Sanders Campaign
Union Report: Bargaining for the Common Good Is Neither Common Nor Good. But It Makes for Great Public Relations
Union Report: In Pushing Members to Back Sanders, L.A. Union President Dismisses Biden, Warren — Says Clinton, Obama Weren’t So Great Either
Union Report: A Look at the Before-and-After of the Chicago Teacher Strike Raises the Question — Was the Walkout Worth It?
Union Report: NEA Affiliate in Las Vegas Surrenders 30% of Members to Teamsters. Is This the Start of New Labor Arrangement?
Union Report: Whom Will the Teachers Unions Endorse for President? 2 Political Case Studies May Offer Some Clues
Union Report: Teachers Unions See Modest Membership Losses in 2018-19 School Year — Janus Decision Having Little Effect, So Far
Union Report: The Looming Chicago Teacher Strike May Be As Much About Membership As It Is About Money
Union Report: When Unions Open Their Own Charter Schools — Lessons From California’s Kwachiiyoa Elementary
Union Report: Great New Essay Tells the Truth About Teacher Pay. Unfortunately, in Ed World, the Truth Is Just Another Story
Union Report: As One Teacher Union Front Group Exposed, Another Takes Its Place
Union Report: Read Across America, the NEA’s Most Successful Public Relations Campaign, Gets a Makeover
Union Report: In the Byzantine World of American Federation of Teachers Membership, Numbers Just Don’t Add Up
Union Report: New Federal Regulation Could Extend Financial Disclosure Rule to All State-Level NEA Affiliates
Union Report: Janus Isn’t NEA’s Only Problem — State Affiliates Have Been Losing Membership Since Long Before the Supreme Court Ruling
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
Union Report: Oakland Teachers Are Set to Strike. Just Like in L.A., a ‘Leap of Faith’ Will Be Needed to End It
Union Report: On the Heels of L.A. Strike, Expect Some Similar Tactics If Oakland Teachers Walk Out — but on a Smaller Scale
Analysis: Behind the Denver Teacher Strike, the Union Cites a ‘Crisis’ in Staff Turnover. But the Numbers Tell a Much Different Story
Union Report: Did the 2018 Teacher Walkouts Reduce Membership Losses From Janus? The Answer Seems to Be Both Yes — and No
Union Report: When It Comes to Messaging Around Membership and Janus, Unions Get an F in Math & History
Union Report: Why Both the L.A. Teachers Union and the District Needed the Strike to Happen
Union Report: Local Government Unions Grew Post-Janus — but News Wasn’t So Good for States or Feds in Just-Released Federal Stats
Union Report: NEA and Its State Affiliates Are a $1.62 Billion Enterprise. Here’s a Breakdown of Their Membership and Finances
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
Union Report: Are Teachers Quitting at Record Rate? Actually, They Leave Their Jobs at Lower Rates Than Almost Everyone Else
Analysis: As Los Angeles Braces for Its First Teacher Strike in a Generation, Some Echoes Resonate From 1989
The 10 Most Memorable Teacher Union Quotes of 2018
The Unwritten Story of Chicago’s Charter School Teacher Strike: Unions See Walkouts as Survival Tool
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
Antonucci: This Is What It Looks Like When Teacher Unions Fight Their Own Employees
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
Union Report: Election Results, #RedForEd, and the NEA: Lessons From Teacher-Candidates About This Year’s Vote — and the Next One
Election-Day Final Sinks Teachers Running for Office in Three Education Battleground States
Seven Questions About All Those ‘Educators Running for Office’ Stories
Union Report Exclusive: Internal Report Shows NEA Losses of 17,000 Members and 87,000 Fee Payers Since Janus Decision
How to Elect — and Get Rid of — a Teacher Union President
Union Report: Maryland Teacher Union Numbers Show Drop In Membership, Market Share Since Supreme Court’s Janus Ruling
Meet the NEA Republicans: The National Education Association Just Recommended 289 House Candidates — Including These 10 Conservatives
Analysis: Teacher Unions Focusing Efforts on Eight States as They Look to Impact 2018 Midterms — and Control of the Senate
Antonucci: When Is a Teacher Strike Legal, and What Happens If Los Angeles’s Teachers Union Walks Out This Week?
Union Report: Remember the ‘Havoc’ Janus Was Supposed to Cause? What Happened With That?
Union Report: A Los Angeles Teacher Strike Seems Inevitable. Does the 2012 Chicago Walkout Hold the Key to a Solution?
Union Report: Membership Remains High, but Teacher Unions Make It Difficult to Leave
Union Report: Teachers Union Employees Stage Job Actions — Against Teachers Unions
Teachers Unions Claim They Are Beating Back Janus’s Threat, but It May Take More Than a Year to Really Know
LeBron James’s New School Has Bikes, Chromebooks, and, More Important, a Flexible School District and an Independent Teachers Union
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?
Union Report: In West Virginia, 15,000 Teachers Are Planning a Walkout. The Strike Is Illegal — but It Shouldn’t Be
Union Report: Why the NEA’s ‘Congressional Report Card’ Says Less About Congress Than It Does About the State of Democratic Party Politics
‘Where Hope Goes to Die’: What It’s Like to Work for a Teachers Union — as Detailed by 13 Disgruntled Employees
As Union Membership Drops Among Teachers, Will Weaker States Survive Janus?
As Union Membership Drops Among Teachers, Will Weaker States Survive Janus?
Union Membership Posts Modest Increase Across U.S. Despite Decline Among Local Government Workers
Analysis: The ‘One Percent’ Leaders of America’s Top Teachers Unions, All Making More Than $300,000 a Year
Union Report: The 10 Most Memorable Teachers Union Quotes of 2017
Union Report: The National Education Association Assails Corporations … When Not Making Money From Them
Analysis: Inside the Financial Collapse of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
Analysis: Five Common Teachers Union Arguments — That Rely on Half-Truths
NYSUT’s Secretary-Treasurer, Who Teaches Full Time and Manages Union Finances on Weekends, Resigns from Management Post
Antonucci: New Jersey’s Teachers Union Doesn’t Care What You Think
Analysis: Why Millennials Can’t Save Unions
Analysis: Teachers Unions Will Argue in Court That ‘Agency Fees’ Don’t Fund Political Activities. But They’re Saying Something Different to Members
Union Report: 8 Ways the NEA Plans to Keep Power, Money, Members If SCOTUS Ends Mandatory Dues
Analysis: Teacher Turnover Is High — Except When You Compare Teaching to Other Professions
NYSUT Secretary-Treasurer Teaches Full Time, Manages Union Finances on Nights and Weekends
Why Did the American Federation of Teachers Give More Money to a Magazine Than Its Own State Branches?
Union Report: Top NEA Leader Promises a Progressive ‘Uprising,’ but Is He Part of the Establishment Problem?
Union Report: Teacher Hold ’Em in Nevada, as Fractious Union and Its Largest Local Trade Lawsuits
Antonucci: Why Do So Many Union Members Enjoy Reading Coverage That’s Critical of Their Leadership?
Union Report: When NEA Speaks to National Press Club, the Faces Change but Song Stays the Same
Analysis: When Unions Don’t Protect Teachers’ Jobs
Analysis: Have We Hired Too Many Teachers? Scholar Warns of Economic ‘Time Bomb’
Exclusive: Teachers Union Document Reveals Master Plan for Unionizing Charter School Networks
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
Analysis: Was Hillary’s Union Support Limited to (Some of) the Public Sector?
Analysis: The One Senator Teachers Unions Might Have Swayed on DeVos Is the One Who Couldn’t Vote ‘No’
Analysis: Facing Threats, Can Public-Sector Unions Learn From the Demise of Industrial Workers?
Analysis: The Strange Disappearance of 69,000 AFT Members
Antonucci: How Representative Are NEA’s Representatives?
Analysis: The U.S. Department of Education — Born in the NEA
Antonucci: The 10 Most Memorable Teachers Union Quotes of 2016
Analysis: The Hundred-Year Teacher Shortage
Analysis: With Question 2 Defeated, Mass. Teachers Turn to Ambitious Legislative Agenda
Analysis: California Is Still the Golden State for Teacher Unions
Analysis: Did Teachers Unions Learn Anything From Hillary’s Loss?
Analysis: 6 Upsides of a Tough Election for Teachers’ Unions
Analysis: The Tale of Teacher Attrition Takes Some JOLTS
What Hillary Told the NEA
Analysis: How NEA Brass Made Sure the Union Endorsed Clinton — Even If It Didn’t Want To
Analysis: Teachers Unions Decry “Outside Money” in Politics, but They’re the Source of a Lot of It
Analysis: There Still Isn’t a Teacher Shortage Again
Analysis: Now Critics, Unions Supported Build-Up of Police in Schools for Years
Analysis: New Warnings of Teacher Shortage Sound Like Déjà Vu All Over Again
Analysis: Unions Have Cash but Not Partners in Fight Against MA Charter Proposal
Analysis: How the NEA Came to Love Citizens United
Analysis: When the National Education Association Fights With Its Own Breakaway Locals
Analysis — When Teachers Unions Become The Man: Why Union Employees Are Fighting for Better Contracts
Analysis: Act Locally, Think Nationally — The NEA’s Plan to Capture America’s Hearts & Minds
Analysis: Los Angeles Teachers Head Is Ready to Incite A ‘State Crisis’ If Union Demands Are Not Met
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