Posts tagged Scott Fitzgerald
Milwaukee police union leader says he’s considering asking Trump to send Guard troops to the city
September 8, 2025 // The discussion of National Guard troops in Milwaukee comes after President Donald Trump sent thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines to Los Angeles in June to quell protests. Last month, he deployed troops across Washington, D.C., and has threatened to make similar moves in Chicago.
Fitzgerald, Lummis Introduce STUDENT Act to Curb Out-of-Control NEA
July 24, 2025 // Although it was originally incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1886, Congress granted the NEA a federal charter in 1906. Today, it is one of only 95 federally chartered “patriotic and national” organizations such as the Boy Scouts, the U.S. Olympic Committee, and the VFW. The NEA is the only labor union with a federal charter and the only federally chartered organization to engage in extensive political advocacy. While repealing the NEA’s charter would rightly signal congressional disapproval for the organization as it exists today, the STUDENT Act would amend the NEA’s charter to require practical changes in the union’s operations.
FREEDOM FOUNDATION APPLAUDS REP. FITZGERALD’S PROPOSAL TO OVERHAUL THE NEA’S FEDERAL CHARTER
July 19, 2023 // Some of the reforms include: prohibiting the NEA from engaging in electoral politics and lobbying, a restriction included in 60 percent of federal charters; requiring the NEA to submit an annual report to Congress; fully repealing the NEA’s D.C. property tax exemption; prohibiting the NEA from collecting dues from a public employee unless the employee has been notified of his or her right to refuse — and affirmatively consented — and require the NEA to collect dues without the use of government payroll systems; prohibiting taxpayer-funded release time for NEA officers; barring the NEA from incorporating the core tenets of Critical Race Theory into its governance, operations and advocacy; subjecting the NEA and its affiliates to the financial transparency requirements and union democracy protections of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act; and, requiring the NEA to refrain from initiating, and to actively intervene to prevent, any strikes or work stoppages by its affiliates.
ARE PRIVATE SECTOR UNIONS PASSÉ?
May 5, 2022 // Union membership is way down, and their collective future is not rosy.