Posts tagged racial

    Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor Unions

    An Elk Grove teacher thought a union seat that barred whites was wrong. He won in court | Opinion

    October 8, 2024 // When filling out the position’s nomination form, I discovered a mandatory checkbox stating, “The BIPOC At-Large Representative position is open to ... self-identified (members) of one or more of the following racial/ethnic categories.” A list of 11 racial identities followed. As a white person, it did not include me. Since I could not truthfully check the box, I was barred from running for the board seat — simply because of the color of my skin.

    BIPOC DEI discrimination diversity equity and inclusion Elk Grove Education Association Elk Grove Unified School District ethnic Fairness Center Isaac Newman racial Sacramento Sacramento county Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

    Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor Unions

    Commentary: The Left and their Union Masters

    June 27, 2023 // Since Janus, government employee unions have lost nearly 800,000 members, taking with them billions in dues revenue that can never again be used to fund a machine that suppresses the rights of its own members in order to advance policies that rob the rest of us our God-given freedoms.

    AFSCME AFT Anheuser-Busch Build Back Better collective bargaining conservative Covid defunding the police Democrats Disney economic equality Freedom Foundation government employee unions Green New Deal Janus liberal market-driven economy Mary Kay Henry NEA President Biden private sector racial Randi Weingarten Republicans Second Amendment SEIU social equality Supreme Court Target unions UTLA Wall Street

    Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor Unions

    Oregon Education Association Just the Latest Teachers’ Union to Impose Racially Discriminatory Policies

    June 15, 2023 // On April 30, OEA’s board of directors discussed a so-called “progressive dues structure for BIPOC (black, indigenous and people of color) members,” according to meeting minutes. This scheme would include a “significant discount for educators until the racial breakdown of our membership aligns with the racial breakdown of our student population.”

    14th Amendment Americans with Disabilities Act anti-white Ashland School District basis of race Becky Pringle color Colorado Department of Education disability Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Equal Protection Clause equity-literate educators gender Jefco Public Schools linguistic Maine Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Minneapolis Public Schools national origin NEA Office of Civil Rights Oregon Oregon Education Association Parents Defending Education Portland Public School District progressive dues structure Protections for Educators of Colo race racial racial discrimination religion Seattle Education Association sex Shelburne Community School Title VII of the Civil Rights Act Vermont white privilege

    Op-ed / Commentary Research ● Unionization Unions

    Workers Are Beating Big Bosses, but Organized Labor Can’t Keep Up

    April 27, 2022 // Worker-led unions are transformational, while organized labor has become transactional.

    AFL-CIO Amazon Amazon Labor Union anti-democratic Arun Gupta astroturf staff-driven bullshit barista clergy conceived consultants corporate Detroit diversity fake worker-led campaign fight for 15 funded gender Glengarry Glen Ross labor movement left-leaning activists legal support logistical support Manhattan Mary Kay Henry McDonald's media support New York New York City New York Post Norma Rae orchestrated organized labor organizer organizing covertly out-of-control plutocracy petitions for elections photo-ops political structure professional staff organizers quotas racial RWDSU SEIU SEIU staff Service Employees International Union smoke and mirrors Starbucks Starbucks Workers United Staten Island strategists Strikes sympathetic activists Teamsters The Daily Beast top-down UAW union members unionize United Auto Workers United Food and Commercial Workers Volkswagen wage increase wages Walmart Washington Post worker democracy worker power worker-led organizing campaigns