Last week, the people of Wisconsin sided with their sitting Governor, affirming their approval of Scott Walker’s job thus far. The issue that was most significant in this election was whether government should support collective bargaining efforts by public employee unions. With shouts of “Thank you, Scott,” echoing around Wisconsin, the answer was a resounding, [...]
No Payroll Deduction Bill Advances
SB 727, a bill introduced by Sen. Ralph Hise (R-Avery, Haywood, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell and Yancey) to end payroll deductions for public school and retired public school employees passed the Senate Rules Committee yesterday on a party-line 7 to 5 vote. Not surprisingly, the action sent North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) into hysterics. NCAE’s [...]
Teachers’ unions and elections
Sean Cavanaugh has penned an interesting article in Education Week on the influence of teacher union money in this fall’s state elections. As might be expected, Democrats are receiving the majority of support from the nation’s two largest teachers’ unions, the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers. Cavanaugh writes: The unions’ political [...]
