https://redstate.com/author/freedom-foundation/feedConservative News & Politicsen-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 19:54:34 -0400<![CDATA[By Jeff Rhodes]]>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0500<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[First Amendment]]><![CDATA[Free Speech]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2026/02/07/william-f-buckleys-forgotten-contribution-to-the-war-against-union-oppression-n2198921<![CDATA[By Cortney Salt, The Freedom Foundation]]>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:00:21 -0400<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Colorado]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[parents]]><![CDATA[Teachers Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2025/04/23/groomed-by-the-system-how-a-colorado-school-betrayed-a-familys-trust-n2188136<![CDATA[As if further evidence were needed, news on Feb. 6 that two federal employee unions have filed suit hoping to halt the Trump administration’s planned shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) demonstrates yet again that Big Labor is at least as interested in advancing a radically woke political agenda to the world at large as it is advocating for its membership at home.]]>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 06:00:23 -0500<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Unions]]><![CDATA[USAID]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2025/02/15/in-the-battle-to-protect-usaid-unions-take-the-lead-n2185612<![CDATA[First Portland. Next, Salem-Keizer came close. Then Albany. And the rumblings of a possible teacher strike in Beaverton continue.]]>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 06:00:27 -0500<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Oregon]]><![CDATA[strike]]><![CDATA[Teachers Unions]]><![CDATA[Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2025/01/09/amid-teacher-strike-trend-the-least-or-lawmakers-can-do-is-bring-union-negotiations-out-of-the-dark-n2184122<![CDATA[In terms of the actual work being done, you could hardly find two occupations more dissimilar than filling prescriptions in a hospital or drug store and stevedoring the huge shipping containers that move through the country’s ports 24 hours a day.]]>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:30:18 -0500<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Labor Unions]]><![CDATA[strike]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2024/12/05/pharmacy-guild-like-dock-workers-union-cares-more-about-control-than-compassion-n2182836<![CDATA[The most recent appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of a case related to its landmark 2018 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME “presents the court with a clean opportunity to end the string of bad law lower courts have created to evade Janus.”&nbsp;]]>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:00:38 -0400<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Janus vs. AFSCME]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2024/10/18/its-up-to-the-supreme-court-to-reinforce-worker-protections-affirmed-by-janus-n2180743<![CDATA[Intuitively, court employees in California, an in-home caregiver in Washington State, and public employees in Oregon have little in common.]]>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:45:50 -0400<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Janus vs. AFSCME]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2024/09/27/upcoming-scotus-conference-could-strengthen-public-worker-protections-n2179842<![CDATA[For most Americans, Labor Day is nothing but one final three-day weekend before the onset of autumn. One last camping trip, beach outing or cookout before the accoutrements of summer are packed away for another nine months.]]>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 08:00:13 -0400<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Janus vs. AFSCME]]><![CDATA[labor day]]><![CDATA[Labor Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2024/09/02/on-labor-day-we-honor-workers-not-the-unions-that-victimize-them-n2178801<![CDATA[In a series of complaints filed with state and federal authorities last month, the Freedom Foundation, a government union watchdog, alleges the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) and the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) engaged in a money laundering scheme to illegally bankroll Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s 2022 gubernatorial campaign with nearly $1.5 million in teachers’ union dues.]]>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 10:50:37 -0400<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Josh Shapiro]]><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]><![CDATA[Teachers Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2024/08/09/pennsylvania-state-education-association-involved-in-alleged-money-laundering-scheme-n2177922<![CDATA[As the Democratic party scrambles to remobilize voters in support of a to-be-determined presidential candidate, Big Labor can no longer deny the possibility of a Republican victory on Election Day.]]>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 09:30:08 -0400<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[24POTUSElection]]><![CDATA[Teamsters]]><![CDATA[Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2024/07/29/big-labors-gop-gamble-serves-unions-not-workers-n2177492<![CDATA[Protests are often like a bad car wreck from which one can’t look away, and the shocking display of antisemitism on college campuses over the past several weeks is one of the most gruesome Americans have ever seen.]]>Thu, 23 May 2024 08:00:51 -0400<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[DSA]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Oregon]]><![CDATA[Teachers Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2024/05/23/even-before-campus-protests-a-teachers-union-opened-its-doors-to-a-socialist-group-that-praised-hamas-n2174457<![CDATA[When even the&nbsp;New York Times finally has to admit the school closures were disastrous for education, childhood developmental disruption,&nbsp;behavioral breakdown in the classroom and future earning potential, you know it was worse than the legacy media, politicians and teachers’ union leaders like Randi Weingarten were willing to admit.]]>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 07:00:51 -0400<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[COVID]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Students]]><![CDATA[Teachers Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2024/04/03/students-paying-the-price-for-unions-covid-closures-n2172231<![CDATA[One doesn’t typically rise to the top of the heap in the union game through academic achievement, sterling character, or commitment to ethical conduct. Thus, we shouldn’t be terribly surprised at how many of those handed the key to a strongbox containing billions in someone else’s dues money come down with a case of sticky fingers.]]>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 08:00:41 -0500<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[AFSCME]]><![CDATA[Corruption]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]><![CDATA[Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2024/02/28/philly-afscme-president-fired-for-getting-caught-n2170681<![CDATA[Does anyone remember the “Red For Ed” education workers’ strikes of 2018-19 across the United States? The #RedForEd movement began in February 2018 in West Virginia and inspired similar statewide school employee strikes in Oklahoma, Arizona, and Colorado. Smaller strikes were set off in individual districts in Georgia, Kentucky, and North Carolina, and a strike by faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.]]>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 06:30:43 -0500<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[AFT]]><![CDATA[COVID]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Randi Weingarten]]><![CDATA[strike]]><![CDATA[Teachers Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2024/02/14/for-teachers-unions-strikes-are-the-new-normal-n2170089<![CDATA[Despite months of feverish recruiting and manipulation of its numbers, United Teachers of Dade (UTD) came up short in its attempt to bring its membership up to the threshold necessary to avoid a recertification election required under terms of a new law passed by Florida’s legislature this past summer.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 09:05:16 -0500<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Miami]]><![CDATA[Teachers Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2024/01/01/americas-third-largest-teachers-union-heads-for-the-largest-decertification-vote-in-history-n2168150<![CDATA[This June marked the fifth anniversary of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling recognizing that taxpayer-compensated employees cannot be forced to financially support a union as a condition of employment.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 09:10:10 -0500<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Janus vs. AFSCME]]><![CDATA[public sector unions]]><![CDATA[Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2023/12/14/public-employees-leaving-their-unions-in-record-numbers-n2167538<![CDATA[As recently as two years ago, Pennsylvania’s Public School Employee Retirement System (PSERS) was among the&nbsp;top 25 public pension funds in the nation.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:30:25 -0500<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Josh Shapiro]]><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]><![CDATA[Teachers Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2023/11/30/shapiro-appoints-teachers-union-fox-to-oversee-pas-pension-henhouse-n2167008<![CDATA[The United Teachers of Dade (UTD) has failed the employees of Miami-Dade County Public Schools for nearly 50 years, but its members will soon have the chance to deny the union further access to their wallets.&nbsp;&nbsp;]]>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 12:22:39 -0500<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Miami]]><![CDATA[National Education Association]]><![CDATA[nea]]><![CDATA[Teachers Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2023/11/09/dade-teachers-union-looks-to-the-failed-policies-of-chicago-for-salvation-n2166093<![CDATA[For all the things Joe Biden hasn’t done or has done badly since assuming the presidency, no one can deny he and his handlers successfully created a roadmap for getting there that previous candidates either hadn’t contemplated or lacked the audacity to employ.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 07:00:06 -0400<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[JB Pritzker]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Unions]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2023/10/24/radical-unions-elected-biden-chaos-ensues-on-international-front-but-others-bank-on-same-formula-n2165479<![CDATA[As part of its ongoing work to hold teachers’ unions accountable for their undeniable role in keeping kids out of the classroom, the Freedom Foundation submitted Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the U.S. Department of Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), looking for more signs of collusion between the unions and the nation’s health officials.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:30:54 -0400<![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[CDC]]><![CDATA[Freedom Foundation]]><![CDATA[schools]]><![CDATA[vaccine mandates]]>https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2023/09/14/cdc-forgets-to-redact-emails-positing-covid-vaccine-requirements-for-children-n2163815