Accomplished, veteran teachers are speaking up and out about union misrepresentation and coercion used against them when they exercise their right to free speech and question union spending. They recount cases of their union refusing to represent them and working with administration to blackball dissenters. None of them are teachers in Nevada, but their stories echo what we have experienced in the Silver State. Click here to view. Below is the background to these testimonials.
Also, hear what teachers across America have to say about the Association of American Educators by clicking here.
Do the rights of individual teachers outweigh the collective union?
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned this June the Washington Supreme Court’s ruling, reaffirming teachers’ individual freedom of speech rights take precedence over the collective unions’. This case came out of Washington after the Washington Education Association (WEA) was fined $590,000 for misuse of members’ dues by a county court.
The WEA appealed to the Washington Supreme Court, receiving a ruling in their favor. The WEA claimed in court that it had no 'fiduciary responsibility' to its members and that the law unconstitutionally ‘burdened’ its free speech rights. The Washington Supreme Court agreed only to have its strange legal logic thrown out by the highest court in the land. Click here to read the WorldnetDaily article.
This is a great victory for teachers across America. As a right to work state, Nevada teachers do not have to pay ‘collective bargaining fees’ if not a member as in Washington. The issue applicable to Nevada is the NSEA’s arrogant treatment of members is the same as the WEA with the union’s narrow political agenda being pursued at the expense of those they pretend to represent.
