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NJ Teachers Union Misused Dues to Fund Chief’s Bid for Governor, Lawsuit Claims
News | New Jersey Monitor
September 30, 2025: “Two public school teachers are suing the New Jersey Education Association, alleging the teachers’ union violated the law when it funneled $40 million to former union president Sean Spiller’s gubernatorial campaign this spring.”
NJ Teachers, Think Tank Challenge NJEA’s $40 Million Political Spending
News Release | The Fairness Center
September 30, 2025: “Two longtime New Jersey teachers and a statewide think tank are taking legal action against the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) over its use of tens of millions of dollars of its members’ mandatory union dues to bankroll its president’s political campaign.”
Labor Day is Ringing Hollow for These Pennsylvania Workers
Op-Ed | TribLive
September 1, 2025: “Across Pennsylvania, other public employees are realizing that union officials sometimes serve themselves and their allies instead of the employees they claim to represent. . . The law says union officials must provide fair representation to all the employees they represent. But too often, they pick and choose whom to help, when to help, or whether to help at all, in ways that seem to benefit themselves.”
How Labor Unions Are Quietly Fueling Campus Anti-Semitism
Op-Ed | The Daily Wire
July 25, 2025: “At last week’s House hearing on rising antisemitism in higher education, lawmakers confronted UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons about me, an Israeli Jewish scientist suing my own labor union, the United Auto Workers, for antisemitic discrimination. . . I applaud lawmakers who are shining a light on these abuses. I never imagined I’d feel unsafe as a scientist working in America. But that’s my reality.”
How Labor Unions Are Feeding Anti-Semitism on University Campuses
Op-Ed | The Wall Street Journal
July 8, 2025: “The experiences of Mr. Lax and Ms. Yaniv expose a structural problem for Jews at public universities. Join the union and face harassment and discrimination, or leave the union and lose any voice in the workplace. When CUNY and UC Berkeley officials appear before the House Education Committee, they should explain how they plan to resolve this Catch-22.”
Colorado Public Employees Deserve The Truth from Union Officials
Op-Ed | The Colorado Sun
July 8, 2025: “The growing rift between Polis and organized labor shows that union officials are willing to cross their own…when their influence is threatened. That pattern doesn’t just stop at the Capitol. From Pueblo to Denver, union officials are stretching—and possibly breaking—the law to protect their power, undermining the rights of the very rank-and-file public employees they claim to represent.”
Teachers’ union political obsessions are harming children
Op-Ed | The Washington Times
August 11 2025: “Recently, outgoing AFT President Randi Weingarten wrote that teachers unions are committed to ‘protect[ing] people’s rights to both their own expression and safe classrooms.’ That sounds nice on paper, but when I respectfully spoke my mind, the union turned its back on me.”
Pennsylvania Employee Sues Union and the State Over Broken Contract
News Release | The Fairness Center
June 12, 2025: “Veteran state employee Todd Burns was in line for a well-deserved promotion until state officials allegedly violated his employment contract to promote someone less qualified but who had close ties to management. Burns turned to his union for help, only for AFSCME, Council 13, to refuse to defend the contract, despite his many years as a dues-paying member.”
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Defenders Are Massive First Amendment Hypocrites
Op-Ed | The Hill
May 13, 2025: “As a recently retired teacher who was a member of the union for decades, color me skeptical of the union’s commitment to the First Amendment. When I spoke against a union-approved DEI program and came under fire from school officials for my opinion, the union hung me out to dry.”
Oswego Teacher Sues Union That Used to Represent Him Over Wages Deducted from Paycheck
News | Oswego County News Now
March 13, 2025: “A longtime teacher at Oswego High School is suing the two unions that represented him, and their presidents, for wages taken from his paycheck, after he informed them he longer wanted to be a member.”
Why Trump’s Anti-Semitism Crackdown Should Worry UC Berkeley Union
Op-Ed | The Orange County Register
February 20, 2025: “Following President Trump’s executive order to combat anti-Semitism came reports that his administration has opened investigations at five U.S. universities—including at UC Berkeley…But investigators would be wise to also examine the role unions have played. My own lawsuit…should be enough to raise alarm bells.”
Israeli UC Berkeley Student Files Lawsuit Against Anti-Semitic Discrimination
News | The Jerusalem Post
February 6, 2025: “‘I tried to reform the union from within but was greeted only by more hate and abuse. I hope my lawsuit shows the thousands of others represented by the union what it is saying and doing in their name and ends the harassment I’ve experienced.’”