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LOMBARDO: Teachers’ Union Head Under Fire For Trying To Use Pension Funds For Left-Wing Political Goals

June 15, 2026 Spencer Lombardo

The second-largest teachers’ union in the U.S. may be using pensions to advance its political agenda, an education watchdog suggests. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has advocated for fossil fuel divestments, pro-DEI boycotts and other pressure campaigns, Consumers’ Research told acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling in a letter Wednesday. The letter requests an investigation into whether AFT is … Read more

Randi Weingarten is What is Wrong With Unions

October 15, 2022 Ray Cardello

RANDI WEINGARTEN is president of the 1.7 million-member American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, representing teachers; paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; local, state, and federal government employees; and early childhood educators.

Teacher’s Union President Visits Ukraine “To Bear Witness and Call Attention to the Effects on Children”

October 11, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is directly responsible for policies that have undermined years of education for American children, and not just during the COIVD plandemic. So, what does the union president do?

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The Teacher’s Unions Lied About CRT

September 7, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Sometimes things happen, and we take them as they come without connecting the dots or following the bread crumbs. Take the Teachers Unions, for example. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) said CRT’s not real. It’s a right-wing conspiracy.

Taxpayers, Not Unions, Should Direct School Curricula

September 1, 2021 Op-Ed

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers Union, was threatening parents at her convention last week who stood in the way of a 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory curricula from being taught in public schools.

Liberty & Freedom Folks – Take the AFT Survey!

September 26, 2018June 27, 2012 Steve MacDonald

If you missed this post, read it first–Major Teachers Union Political survey includes no questions about the children or their education, just about things that matter to securing union power and their ability to charge dues. So one of our Grok Friends suggested we encourage our readers to take the survey themselves and send it … Read more

American Federation of Teachers Candidate Survey – Hint: It’s Not About The Children

March 12, 2026June 26, 2012 Steve MacDonald

I was forwarded a copy of the candidate survey sent out to New Hampshire Legislative Candidates from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT-NH). It is twenty-five questions whose focus can be summed up in two words: Money and Power. The entire survey is dedicated to asking whether you will do anything to curb public union … Read more