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With Daniel Lippman
UNIONS MOBILIZE TO PRESSURE SENATORS ON PRO ACT: The AFL-CIO is leading a national day of action today, with more than 200 other unions, affiliates and allies urging senators to back the House-passed labor overhaul known as the PRO Act. The sweeping legislation would make it easier for workers to form unions and extend collective bargaining rights to independent contractors, and President
Now
Or…
ever?
I’m speaking, to be clear, of the ideological kind.
The Senate passed a bill meant to preserve “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity.”
Yes you read that correctly.
As reported by the Tampa Bay Times, House Bill 233 made it through to the tune of 23-15. It’ll now go to the full House for passage.
The bill’s aim is so outdated, it’s downright
constitutional: to keep public colleges and universities from limiting the expression of ideas and opinions that may be “uncomfortable, unwelcome, disagreeable, or offensive.”
Per the legislation, secondary educational institutions would also survey students and staff about their beliefs.
Union Sues Northwest Louisiana School System Over ‘Heroes’ Stipend April 8, 2021
A teachers union has sued a northwest Louisiana school system, saying a $1,000 bonus discriminates against women, older workers and disabled people.
The Caddo Parish School Board approved the “Caddo Heroes Stipend Allocation” for full-time employees who were present for at least 90% of their scheduled workdays during the 2020-21 school year.
Red River United, a local of the American Federation of Teachers, filed the lawsuit on April 5 and announced it at a news conference the same day, news outlets reported.
“This year has been grueling and every employee who has shown up for our students is a hero. That doesn’t change just because someone had to take time off to have a baby, or went in for emergency surgery,” union president Jackie Lansdale said, according to KSLA-TV.
Teachers’ Union Head Attacks Jewish ‘Ownership Class’ for Pushing to Reopen Schools
The president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Randi Weingarten, has drawn criticism after she labeled Jewish parents pushing for schools to reopen as privileged members of the “ownership class.”
Weingarten, who is herself Jewish and married to a rabbi serving a New York City-based progressive congregation, was asked in a phone interview in March with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about those in the Jewish community who are “very skeptical” of efforts from teachers unions to keep schools closed.
Specifically, the interviewer asked Weingarten about what she thinks of parents in Los Angeles who are baffled to see teachers refusing to go back to teach in classrooms while their schools are receiving millions of dollars in pandemic aid. The United Teachers of Los Angeles, the union representing some 33,000 teachers in the nation’s second-largest district, last month condemne
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