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    Unions and billionaires pour cash into SQ 832—and call it ‘compassion’

    May 12, 2026 // The National Education Association (NEA), which regularly supports all sorts of left-wing causes, has donated half a million dollars to support SQ 832. This is the same organization that advocated for taxpayer funding of abortion, advised teachers to hide information from parents regarding their students’ sexuality, opposed efforts to protect girls’ sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms from use by the opposite sex, and proposed removing police officers from schools in the name of racial justice. Other financial supporters include the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), and the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE).

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    SCOTUS won’t hear two public-sector union cases

    March 7, 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court recently rejected petitions in two cases related to public-sector union policy. The last such case the court heard was Janus v. AFSCME in 2018.

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    Virginia House passes five public-sector union bills

    February 21, 2022 // On Feb. 15, the Virginia House of Delegates passed five Republican-sponsored bills dealing with public-sector union policy. The bills are now in committee in the Senate, where Democrats hold a majority.

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