Union Report
The latest classroom, policy and politics news from America’s teachers unions, updated every Wednesday by Mike Antonucci
Opinion
Antonucci: From Teacher Pay to School Budgets, Ed Policy Is Often Based on Public Perception. But How Much Do People Really Know?
Analysis
Analysis: Mask Mandates? Vaccine Mandates? For Unions, the Only Mandate Is Collective Bargaining
Analysis
Analysis: New Numbers Show the Financial Impact of #RedforEd Protests, Janus Court Ruling on the National Education Association
Analysis
Analysis: The Curious Incident of the Teachers Unions’ Vaccine Mandate Shift
Analysis
Analysis: Are 90 Percent of Teachers Really Vaccinated Against COVID-19? The Numbers Say Otherwise
Analysis
Analysis: NEA Wants Stronger IRS Enforcement — But Its Own Affiliates Could Use Some More Oversight
Opinion
Union Report: AFT’s Mississippi Affiliate Sues National Union — Alleges Cover-Up & Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Embezzlement in Jackson Local
Analysis
Analysis: Police in Schools, Critical Race Theory and a Plummeting Delegate Head Count at NEA’s 2021 Virtual Assembly
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Analysis: NEA Continued to Lose Working Members in 2020 Even as Schools Hired Thousands
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Analysis: The NEA Budget Is a Lesson in Reading Between the Lines
Analysis
How Unions in the Nation’s Four Largest School Districts are Leveraging School Reopenings
Analysis
Analysis: If Getting Police out of Schools Means a Drop in Membership, the Unions Will Have Something to Say About It
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Analysis: States and Districts May Not Be Ready to Spend $122B in Rescue Plan Funds, But the Unions Are. Get Ready for More School Hiring
Opinion
Antonucci: Has Teachers Union Pressure on CDC Turned the Government’s Best Scientific Guidelines into a Bargaining Chip?
Analysis
Analysis: Last Year’s Polls Showed Teachers Were Thinking About Quitting. This Year, Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Had Little Effect on Their Job Retention
Analysis
Analysis: The Clovis, California, Faculty Senate Is a Model of Nonunion Representation. The State Teachers Union Is Looking to Change That
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Analysis: Backlash Against Pension Reform Drives Kentucky #RedforEd Group to Join American Federation of Teachers
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Analysis: Randi Weingarten Says Her AFT Has Been ‘Trying to Reopen Schools Since Last April.’ What the Union’s Locals Actually Did