Posts tagged teacher union
Northside ISD school board incumbents face wall of union-backed challengers
April 22, 2025 // Four Northside Independent School District incumbent school board members are up for reelection this year, all of whom face opposition from the district’s teacher union, which backed challengers in their races. Union leaders are looking to shake up a board of incumbents who are primarily retired from their professional careers and promote a new class of younger community activists.
Unions are failing to protect the privacy of members from hackers and DOGE
April 11, 2025 // Last year, Service Employees International Union Local 1000, which serves 100,000 California state employees, also fell victim to ransomware. And in a similar lack of transparency, the California union masked what happened behind vagaries and euphemisms, calling the crime “a network disruption by an outside actor.” This dereliction of duty comes at a great cost. Following another data breach, UNITE HERE, a New York-based labor union that exposed 800,000 people to a data breach, paid $6 million in out-of-court settlement. In 2023, a Boston union lost $6.4 million of member health funds to hackers. Most corporations have sensitive personal information. And that comes with a duty to protect it