In recent years, a growing number of activists and pundits who are normally allied with Big Labor have been publicly demanding that public policymakers take bold action to stop America’s powerful building-trades union bosses from wielding their special legal privileges to keep good construction job opportunities out of reach for African Americans.
More than a year after Big Labor President Joe Biden’s political appointees ignored sound medical science to help power-crazed union officials prolong harmful COVID-19 school lockdowns, key facts about their betrayal of children and their parents are finally emerging.
More than a year after Big Labor President Joe Biden’s political appointees ignored sound medical science to help power-crazed union officials prolong harmful COVID-19 school lockdowns, key facts about their betrayal of children and their parents are finally emerging.
More than a year after Big Labor President Joe Biden’s political appointees ignored sound medical science to help power-crazed union officials prolong harmful COVID-19 school lockdowns, key facts about their betrayal of children and their parents are finally emerging.
By Stan Greer | May 3, 2021 | 3:19pm EDT
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten gives a speech. (Photo credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
This spring, government union bosses like Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT/AFL-CIO), are continuing to claim it remains too dangerous to reopen fully thousands and thousands of K-12 schools across the country that closed their doors in early 2020.
But a recent poll shows that parents of the very schoolchildren about whom Weingarten and her cohorts purport to be concerned lopsidedly disagree.
A nationwide scientific survey of K-12 parents conducted Feb. 14-21 by Gallup found that,