The Union Anti-Semitism Monitor
The Union Anti-Semitism Monitor compiles media articles covering allegations of anti-Semitic discrimination and anti-Israel activism within unions. Note: The content of this page does not solely reflect lawsuits filed by clients of the Fairness Center, and the opinions expressed in linked articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the Fairness Center.
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News of Union Anti-Semitism
News
Gottheimer blasts New Jersey teachers’ union over anti-Israel session at conference
11/04/2025 | Marc Rod | Jewish Insider
Teacher union boss Randi Weingarten accused of ignoring antisemitism in bombshell letter
10/24/2025 | Josh Christenson | New York Post
AFT Guild Calls ‘From the River to the Sea’ a ‘Rallying Cry for Peace’
10/24/2025 | Alana Goodman | The Washington Free Beacon
Top teachers union invites pro-violence activists to shape public school curricula
10/21/2025 | Robert Schmad | Washington Examiner
Teacher union sends map erasing Israel to its millions of members for ‘Indigenous People’s Day’
10/15/2025 | David Spector | Fox News
Congressman demands N.J. teachers union fire magazine editor over antisemitic, pro-Hamas posts
10/07/2025 | Nyah Marshall | NJ.com
Anonymous grad student group files unfair labor practice charge against SWC-UAW
9/28/2025 | Halberstam & Davis | Columbia Spectator
K-12 Union Antisemitism Is Politicizing Classrooms, New Report Says
9/26/2025 | Dion J. Pierre | The Algemeiner
California passes antisemitism bill despite teachers union pushback
9/15/2025 | Gabby Deutch | Jewish Insider
Union Antisemitism Running Rampant on College Campuses, Experts and Student Tell US Congress
9/09/2025 | Dion J. Pierre | The Algemeiner
Union leaders put Jew-hatred ahead of protecting members, witnesses tell House panel
9/09/2025 | Aaron Bandler | JNS
Congressional committee to hold hearing on ‘unmasking union antisemitism’
9/03/2025 | Michael Starr | Jerusalem Post
Jewish activists accuse NYC teachers’ union of condoning antisemitism—and demand they retract Mamdani endorsement
8/29/2025 | Hannah Fierick & Carl Campanile | New York Post
ZOA files complaint to Massachusetts AG, alleging teachers’ union hostile to Jews
8/27/2025 | Aaron Bandler| JNS
House ed panel investigates Jew-hatred in ranks of national teachers’ union
8/22/2025 | Staff | JNS
S.F. union fights Jewish teacher who won back his dues over its anti-Israel activity
8/07/2025 | Emma Goss | JWeekly
Graduate Student Unions Promoting Anti-Semitism, Reform Group Says
8/07/2025 | Dion J. Pierre | The Algemeiner
Opinion
Teachers’ Unions Have an Out-of-Control Anti-Semitism Problem
10/14/2025 | Claire Harrington | Minding the Campus
California Teachers’ Union Ruins an Earnest Effort to Confront Antisemitism
9/27/2025 | Will Swaim | National Review
Why is the California Teachers Association fighting an antisemitism bill?
9/09/2025 | Daniel Klein | Mercury News
Stanford’s Graduate Student Union Tries to Stifle Dissent
8/29/2025 | Jon Hartley | Wall Street Journal
Antisemitism Is Proliferating in Our Public Schools
8/21/2025 | Larry Sand | American Greatness
No place for antisemitism in education
8/08/2025 | Joanna Honig | Boston Herald
Anti-Semitism’s newest safe space: Teachers’ unions
8/06/2025 | Kenneth L. Marcus | The Hill
Jew hate is surging in public schools and teachers’ unions lead the way
8/05/2025 | Betsy McCaughey | New York Post
Columbia Students Should Decertify Their Union
8/01/2025 | Will Sussman | City Journal
Teaching hate, hiding truth: NEA’s real agenda revealed in leaked handbook
7/30/2025 | Corey DeAngelis | Fox News
How Unions Are Quietly Fueling Campus Anti-Semitism
7/25/2025 | Karin Yaniv | The Daily Wire
Anti-Semitism and the Teachers Union
7/15/2025 | Jonathan Greenblatt | Wall Street Journal
Why are America’s teachers’ unions at war with Israel?
7/10/2025 | Jonathan Tobin | JNS
We’re Jewish schoolteachers—our union’s vote against the ADL attacks us too
7/9/2025 | Rebecca Kotok and Brenda Green | New York Post
How Labor Unions Feed Campus Anti-Semitism
7/8/2025 | Nathan McGrath | Wall Street Journal
Our Clients
Israeli UC Berkeley Postdoc Sues Union for ‘Anti-Semitic’ Discrimination
Yaniv v. UAW 4811
Karin Yaniv, an Israeli postdoc at UC Berkeley, alleges that her campus union has created an atmosphere of pervasive hostility and relentless abuse targeting Israeli Jews it represents. Her civil rights lawsuit seeks to end the union’s anti-Semitic discrimination against her and to hold union officials accountable for the hostile work environment they have fostered on campus.
Professors Seek Freedom from ‘Anti-Semitic’ Union’s Representation
Goldstein v. PSC/CUNY
Avraham Goldstein and five other City University of New York professors were outraged when their union issued a resolution they viewed as “anti-Israel” and “anti-Semitic.” Though these professors are no longer union members, New York law forces them to still accept the union’s representation.
Client Question & Answer With CUNY Professor Frimette Kass-Shraibman
Goldstein v. PSC/CUNY
Frimette Kass-Shraibman is an accounting professor at the City University of New York. She is also a Zionist Jew and was one of the six professors who sued their faculty union in Goldstein v. PSC/CUNY. The Fairness Center interviewed Frimette about her lawsuit and the anti-Semitism she has faced on CUNY campuses. Read her Q&A here.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you are a public employee who is not a union member, you have a constitutional right not to pay fees to a union, according to the Supreme Court’s Janus v. AFSCME decision in 2018.
Some courts have said that employees who were union members but who later resigned from the union had to continue paying union dues for a period of time in some circumstances. One example is if the employee had signed a membership card or application containing certain language.
We have successfully represented clients who were told they had to pay the union when they did not want to. However, the facts and circumstances of each situation vary, and our ability to offer representation may depend on the relevant legal jurisdiction.
NOTE: If you have questions about this topic, or think you have a legal issue, consider contacting a lawyer. Fairness Center lawyers represent clients for free and can be reached here or at 844.293.1001. We strongly encourage you to pursue with haste any legal claim you believe you may have, as the mere passage of time may prevent you from exercising possible legal claims.
Unions owe a duty of fair representation to all the employees in a bargaining unit they represent, whether they are union members or not. The U.S. Supreme Court has said that the duty is breached when a union’s actions toward an employee it represents are “arbitrary, discriminatory, or in bad faith.” Vaca v. Sipes, 386 U.S. 171, 190 (1967).
Many jurisdictions follow that standard, but the exact details of what the duty requires may vary by jurisdiction and circumstances. Some states permit unions not to represent nonmembers in “individualized” grievances. Also, some states allow nonmembers to represent themselves in grievances, at least in the first stages.
The Fairness Center has represented clients, like Connecticut teacher John Grande, who alleged that their union violated the duty of fair representation because they were not union members or because union officials misrepresented important information during collective bargaining, as was the case with Pennsylvania employee Mark Kiddo and his colleagues.
NOTE: If you have questions about this topic, or think you have a legal issue, consider contacting a lawyer. Fairness Center lawyers represent clients for free and can be reached here or at 844.293.1001. We strongly encourage you to pursue with haste any legal claim you believe you may have, as the mere passage of time may prevent you from exercising possible legal claims.
Unions owe a duty of fair representation to all the employees in a bargaining unit they represent, whether they are union members or not. The U.S. Supreme Court has said that the duty is breached when a union’s actions toward an employee it represents are “arbitrary, discriminatory, or in bad faith.” Vaca v. Sipes, 386 U.S. 171, 190 (1967).
Many jurisdictions follow that standard, but the exact details of what the duty requires may vary by jurisdiction and circumstances.
The Fairness Center has represented clients, like Connecticut teacher John Grande, who have alleged that their union violated the duty of fair representation because they were not union members or because union officials misrepresented important information during collective bargaining, as was the case with Pennsylvania employee Mark Kiddo and his colleagues.
NOTE: If you have questions about this topic, or think you have a legal issue, consider contacting a lawyer. Fairness Center lawyers represent clients for free and can be reached here or at 844.293.1001. We strongly encourage you to pursue with haste any legal claim you believe you may have, as the mere passage of time may prevent you from exercising possible legal claims.
The Fairness Center currently offers free legal representation in Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Colorado, New Jersey and to federal employees, and may soon be expanding to other areas. The Fairness Center has represented clients involved in disputes with unions, including:
- American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE),
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME),
- American Federation of Teachers (AFT),
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW),
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Teamsters),
- Law Enforcement Employees Benevolent Association (LEEBA),
- National Education Association (NEA),
- National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU),
- New York State United Teachers (NYSUT),
- Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association (PSCOA),
- Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA),
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU),
- Transportation Workers Union of America (TWU),
- United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW),
- UNITE Here, and more.
NOTE: If you have questions about this topic, or think you have a legal issue, consider contacting a lawyer. Fairness Center lawyers represent clients for free and can be reached here or at 844.293.1001. We strongly encourage you to pursue with haste any legal claim you believe you may have, as the mere passage of time may prevent you from exercising possible legal claims.
Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it unlawful for a “labor organization” to “exclude or to expel from its membership, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual because of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin . . . .” 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(c)(1). Some states have laws with similar provisions as well. The Fairness Center has represented clients who believed that a union had discriminated against them on an unlawful basis.
NOTE: If you have questions about this topic, or think you have a legal issue, consider contacting a lawyer. Fairness Center lawyers represent clients for free and can be reached here or at 844.293.1001. We strongly encourage you to pursue with haste any legal claim you believe you may have, as the mere passage of time may prevent you from exercising possible legal claims.
Other Resources
“The mission of the Israeli-American Council (IAC) is to build an engaged and united Israeli-American community that strengthens the Israeli and Jewish identity of our next generation, the American Jewish community, and the bond between the peoples of the United States and the State of Israel.” Visit IAC.
“S.A.F.E. Campus is a nonprofit and non-partisan grassroots advocacy organization dedicated to combating the systemic exclusion and discrimination faced by Zionist and Jewish students, alumni, and faculty on American college campuses.” Visit S.A.F.E. Campus.
“StandWithUs is an international, non-partisan education organization that supports Israel and fights anti-Semitism. StandWithUs empowers and energizes students and communities with leadership training and educational programs on hundreds of college campuses, high schools, and middle schools.” Visit StandWithUs.