Union Report

The latest classroom, policy and politics news from America’s teachers unions, updated every Wednesday by Mike Antonucci

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

Mike Antonucci

February 1, 2023

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

Mike Antonucci

January 25, 2023

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

Mike Antonucci

January 18, 2023

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

Mike Antonucci

November 21, 2022

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

Mike Antonucci

November 15, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

November 2, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

October 31, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

October 19, 2022

Union Report

Open Collective Bargaining — Something Everyone Can Agree On?

Mike Antonucci

October 13, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

October 5, 2022

Union Report

Labor Strife Smoldering in NEA’s Maryland, Ohio Affiliates

Mike Antonucci

September 29, 2022

EDlection 2022

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

Mike Antonucci

September 21, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

September 14, 2022

EDlection 2022

Miami Teachers Union President Running for Lieutenant Governor of Florida

Mike Antonucci

September 7, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

August 31, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

August 25, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

August 16, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

August 11, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

August 4, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

July 19, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

July 14, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

July 6, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

June 23, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

June 15, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

June 7, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

June 2, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

May 25, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

May 11, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

May 5, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

April 28, 2022

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Can an Opposition Coalition Oust UFT's Leadership?

Mike Antonucci

April 21, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

April 13, 2022

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For and Against Teacher Candidate Test — at the Same Time

Mike Antonucci

April 6, 2022

Union Report

As Sacramento Teachers Strike, State Union Membership Shows Accelerated Losses

Mike Antonucci

March 30, 2022

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Minneapolis School Board Member Quits After Strike Protest At His Home

Mike Antonucci

March 22, 2022

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Minneapolis' Troubles Have Just Begun

Mike Antonucci

March 16, 2022

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Minneapolis Teachers Strike, St. Paul Reaches Tentative Agreement

Mike Antonucci

March 8, 2022

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High Drama Over Chicago Teachers Union's May Election

Mike Antonucci

February 16, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

February 9, 2022

Union Report

Will 2022 Be the Year Teachers Union Dissidents Win?

Mike Antonucci

February 2, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

January 26, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

January 18, 2022

Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci

January 13, 2022

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

January 6, 2022

Pandemic

Union Membership Dropped During Year of Pandemic School Closures

Mike Antonucci

December 15, 2021

Union Report

Exclusive: NEA Cancels July Convention in Texas Boycott

Mike Antonucci

December 7, 2021

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How Much School Funding Goes to Salaries & Benefits?

Mike Antonucci

December 1, 2021

Union Report

When the Teachers Union Tries to Unseat School Board Members

Mike Antonucci

November 17, 2021

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

November 9, 2021

Union Report

VA State Teachers Union Places Large Local in Trusteeship

Mike Antonucci

November 3, 2021

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

Mike Antonucci

October 26, 2021

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How Shuttered Schools Could Still Spend More

Mike Antonucci

October 14, 2021

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

October 6, 2021

Pandemic

Are There Vaccine Mandates in Schools Or Not?

Mike Antonucci

September 29, 2021

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

September 14, 2021

Pandemic

Mask Mandates, Vaccine Mandates & Collective Bargaining

Mike Antonucci

September 1, 2021

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

August 25, 2021

Union Report

Inside Teachers Unions' Tone Shift on Vaccine Mandates

Mike Antonucci

August 18, 2021

Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci

August 10, 2021

Union Report

NEA Affiliates Could Use Some More Oversight

Mike Antonucci

August 4, 2021

Union Report

AFT Mississippi Affiliate Alleges Cover-Up, Embezzlement

Mike Antonucci

July 28, 2021

Pandemic

Critical Race Theory, Plummeting Delegate Head Count at NEA Assembly

Mike Antonucci

July 8, 2021

Union Report

NEA Continued to Lose Working Members in 2020

Mike Antonucci

June 23, 2021

Union Report

NEA Budget Is a Lesson in Reading Between the Lines

Mike Antonucci

June 16, 2021

Union Report

Teachers’ Unions Leverage Reopenings

Mike Antonucci

June 9, 2021

Union Report

Unions, Membership and Getting Police Out of the Schools

Mike Antonucci

May 26, 2021

Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci

May 19, 2021

Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci

May 5, 2021

Pandemic

COVID-19 Had Little Effect on Teacher Job Retention

Mike Antonucci

April 28, 2021

Union Report

A Model of Nonunion Representation Is Under Fire

Mike Antonucci

April 21, 2021

Union Report

Kentucky #RedforEd Group Joins AFT

Mike Antonucci

April 7, 2021

Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci

April 1, 2021

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

March 24, 2021

Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci

March 17, 2021

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

March 2, 2021

Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci

February 25, 2021

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

February 17, 2021

Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci

February 9, 2021

Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci

February 2, 2021

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

January 26, 2021

Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci

January 20, 2021

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

January 12, 2021

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

January 6, 2021

EDlection 2020

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

Mike Antonucci

December 7, 2020

EDlection 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

Mike Antonucci

December 2, 2020

EDlection 2020

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

Mike Antonucci

November 13, 2020

EDlection 2020

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

Mike Antonucci

October 28, 2020

EDlection 2020

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

Mike Antonucci

October 21, 2020

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

October 14, 2020

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

October 6, 2020

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

September 23, 2020

Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci

September 15, 2020

Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci

September 11, 2020

EDlection 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

Mike Antonucci

August 19, 2020

Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci

August 14, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

The 10 Most Memorable Teachers Union Quotes of 2022

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

Teachers Union Membership Drops by 59,000 Across the Nation

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

Children deserve a first-rate education.The public deserves first-rate reporting on it.Please make a tax-exempt donation to The 74.

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

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

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

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

Open Collective Bargaining — Something Everyone Can Agree On?

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

Labor Strife Smoldering in NEA’s Maryland, Ohio Affiliates

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

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

Miami Teachers Union President Running for Lieutenant Governor of Florida￼

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

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

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

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

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

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

Will 2022 Be the Year Teachers Union Dissidents Win?

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

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

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

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

Union Membership Dropped During Year of Pandemic School Closures

Exclusive: NEA Cancels July Convention in Texas Boycott

How Much School Funding Goes to Salaries & Benefits?

When the Teachers Union Tries to Unseat School Board Members

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

VA State Teachers Union Places Large Local in Trusteeship

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

How Shuttered Schools Could Still Spend More

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

Are There Vaccine Mandates in Schools Or Not?

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

Mask Mandates, Vaccine Mandates & Collective Bargaining

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

Inside Teachers Unions' Tone Shift on Vaccine Mandates

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

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

Children deserve a first-rate education.
The public deserves first-rate reporting on it.
Please make a tax-exempt donation to The 74.

Miami Teachers Union President Running for Lieutenant Governor of Florida

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