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Anoka-Hennepin teachers’ union planning for possible strike vote
December 11, 2025 // Anoka-Hennepin teachers’ union planning for possible strike vote Anoka-Hennepin Education Minnesota, the union representing more than 3,200 educators in the state’s largest school district, set up a strike office on Tuesday in Coon Rapids. The union and district shared that the sticking points include pay and healthcare premiums on a new contract. The AHEM executive board met on Monday and approved a strike authorization vote.
SFUSD Teachers Overwhelmingly Pass Strike Authorization Vote
December 7, 2025 // UESF has asked for a 9% raise for teachers and 14% raise for non-certificated staff over two years. They also asked for up to 100% health care benefit coverage and a new special education staffing model, among other demands.
Teachers in West Contra Costa Unified go on strike
December 6, 2025 // The teachers are expected to picket outside dozens of schools located in El Cerrito, Hercules, Pinole, Richmond and San Pablo. The union and school district are at impasse after 10 months of negotiations for a new contract. The teachers union authorized the strike Monday. It seeks a 10% pay raise over the next two years, better health care and smaller class sizes. The district is offering a 3% raise and increased health benefits.
The Absurdity of the Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union
December 3, 2025 // Membership training for the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest teachers’ union, makes the organization’s priorities unmistakably clear. Defending Education, a watchdog group, recently obtained pre-attendance and participant materials for the NEA’s training session, “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice,” which begins today. The documents, considered alongside other union programming, reveal the NEA’s fixation on identity politics.
Moses Lake teachers begin strike Monday as negotiations continue
December 2, 2025 // All MLSD schools will remain closed until the strike ends, due to safety concerns without MLEA staff. As of 4 p.m. Monday, no contract has been reached between the two entities. “We understand this is a difficult time for our families, and our community as a whole,” MLSD Director of Public Relations Ryan Shannon said. “While the current work stoppage temporarily paused classroom instruction, it has not eliminated instructional time. Every day that is missed will be made up. The school calendar will be adjusted once school resumes.” This is the third school strike in Washington this year. Evergreen Public Schools classified staff went on strike for three weeks, and the La Center School District teachers struck for one week at the beginning of the school year.
San Francisco Teachers Take Key Step Toward Strike
December 1, 2025 // SFUSD is currently in the second of a two-year budgeting process to curb a massive ongoing deficit. Last year, it slashed $114 million in annual expenses through hundreds of early retirement buyouts, the implementation of a strict staffing model in schools and administrative position reductions. This year, it will need to make another $48 million in cuts, which Superintendent Maria Su has indicated could be even more challenging.
West Contra Costa Teachers Are Near a Pivotal Moment in Their Potential Strike
December 1, 2025 // UTR has proposed a 10% pay raise over the next two years and full health coverage. The district’s most recent counterproposal included a 2% pay raise for the 2025-26 school year. The union argues that an increase in compensation will attract and maintain quality educators to help the district address its staffing shortage
Largest US teachers’ union to host training that attacks Republicans as ‘racist and transphobic’
November 25, 2025 // America’s largest teachers’ union accused Republicans of promoting “racist and transphobic troupes” in teaching materials for an upcoming training program, according to documents obtained by a conservative activist group. The National Education Association is hosting a training from Dec. 2-4 at an undisclosed location called “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice and Transgender Advocacy” aimed at dismantling “strategic racism and transphobia,” the group Defending Education uncovered. The group released information on the training that is targeted for union staff and teams as part of the NEA UniServ and Organizing Training Program 2025–2026.
CALIFORNIA: WCCUSD teachers’ strike not inevitable, union says, but sides remain far apart on salary and benefits
November 23, 2025 // The district has said it doesn’t have sufficient funding, citing a budget deficit that has put it at risk of state takeover. The district plans to withdraw $13 million from reserve funds to cover the projected deficit for this school year. The union’s demands include a 10% increase in salary over two years, full medical benefits coverage, and reductions in class sizes. The district initially offered no increase in salary or in the percentage of benefits it pays, but then offered a 2% salary increase and a bump in its health coverage from 80% to 85%, which the union rejected.
MAXFORD NELSEN: The Other Education Choice: Freeing Teachers from Monopolistic Unions
November 17, 2025 // Public-sector collective bargaining tends to crowd out the interests of students, families, and taxpayers in education policymaking, but teachers unions’ power comes from subjecting teachers to a monopoly system of workplace restrictions. While individual educators now have the legal right to forgo union membership, state policymakers have many opportunities to improve educators’ ability to exercise that right. To level the playing field and increase teachers unions’ accountability to the public and their own members, policymakers should consider reforming or replacing collective bargaining in public education.