Since last month, several teachers unions across the country have gone on strike ahead of the 2022-2023 school year. This is the same time most school districts plan to return to full-time, in-person and “normal” schooling since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, teachers unions around the country are voting to authorize strikes over wages, class sizes, and building conditions, among other things…
Not to mention, reports showed how teachers unions demanded to get the COVID-19 vaccine before going back to the classroom. The Chicago Teachers Union, specifically, pushed for the delay of the school district’s reopening until teachers had received the first dose. When schools eventually reopened, Chicago teachers walked out of their jobs over COVID-19 safety concerns. In March, a separate teachers’ strike in Minneapolis over wages lasted three weeks. Teachers in Sacramento walked out on the job for similar reasons.
The WSJ also pointed out that a new federal report showed that students suffered irreparable learning loss in the past two years due to the pandemic and blamed teachers unions for “[setting] back America’s children for years.”
…WSJ’s report follows up to a 2020 piece about how teachers unions extorted taxpayers with an “ideological wish-list” to return to school. Read more…
