Both national teacher unions representing close to 5 million members, have given their early endorsement of Biden, displaying the deep ties between the trade union bureaucracies and the state.
Testifying before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten defended her record of forcing millions of teachers and students back into unsafe classrooms during the pandemic.
School closures and culture wars turned classrooms into battlegrounds and made the head of one of the country’s largest teachers’ unions a lightning rod for criticism.
Temple University students in Philadelphia began an indefinite strike this week after the university refused to bargain with them for cost of living and other improvements.
At last week’s live-streamed roundtable with opponents of COVID-19 masking and vaccination, the Florida governor said he will empanel a grand jury to investigate adverse events associated with the mRNA vaccines.