Unions in America

• forced dues
• public education
• National Education Association
• American Federation of Teachers
• The Heritage Foundation
• lobbying
• voter fraud
• tenure
• merit pay

• "forced union dues inhibit growth" National Institute for Labor Relations Research
• forced union dues
• Big Labor
• incentive
• class warfare
• rigid work rules
• the "hate the boss" mentality
• power over employees
• private- and public-sector employees
• exclusive bargaining agent
• state Right to Work law
• personal freedom of choice
• full productive potential
• demographic and economic indicators
• young- adult migration

• paycheck protection
• taking money for political purposes
• the chance to opt out of paying for the political causes of education unions
• payroll deduction
• education unions
• study of teachers unions, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools, Terry Moe
• teachers unions
• uncoordinated expenditures
• get-out-the-vote efforts
• campaign ads
• the Reason Foundation
• California Teachers Association
• ballot initiatives

• education reforms
• healthcare reform measures

• Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty
• school chancellor, Michelle Rhee
• bad teachers

• teachers unions can both mobilize voters and spend huge sums of money to defeat ballot initiatives and candidates that they don't like.
• the politics of American education
• union bosses
• political agendas
• Beck rights