Several weeks after ending their months-long strike, graduate student workers at the University of California received shocking news: they will have to repay their wages to the university. Although the University of California said it…
Monthly Archives For February 2023
Teachers’ union promotes Black Lives Matter propaganda
The Black Lives Matter movement has been exposed as a political, radical movement that has created unsafe living conditions in many urban areas, raised crime rates, discouraged police officers from doing their job, and promoted…
Strike threatened by Rutgers University faculty, staff over ‘housing justice’
It appears that demanding radical, left-wing concessions is en vogue when it comes to labor strikes in higher education. Last fall, University of California graduate workers went on strike and demanded a slew of concessions…
Florida teachers’ unions prevent teacher pay raise
Multiple school districts in Florida are at an impasse with the Florida Education Association (FEA) teachers’ union when it comes to distributing pay raises to teachers, which pay raises will come from a sum of…
Wall Street Journal praises Iowa Gov. Reynolds over school choice
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, has made school choice a centerpiece of her administration and garnered high praise from a leading center-right news outlet. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board praised the two-term governor…
DeSantis issues Teachers Bill of Rights, sparking teachers’ union criticism
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently unveiled a paycheck protection bill, which already received significant criticism of teachers’ unions in the Sunshine State. For context, paycheck protection is the act of preventing mandatory dues payment from…
Rewarding Anti-Israel Radicalism at SFSU
Unsurprisingly for an organization whose membership has been perennially hostile to Israel, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) just awarded the 2022 Jere L. Bacharach Service Award to San Francisco State University (SFSU) Professor Rabab…
Graduate workers at Temple University go on strike
Fresh off the labor strike at the University of California among graduate student workers, Temple University workers officially went on strike last Tuesday. These workers are teaching assistants and research assistants at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based…
Apple Health’s Woke Challenge
I’m a bit of a fitness nerd. I’ve owned various Fitbit fitness trackers for nearly ten years and only converted to an Apple Watch last summer, when my current Fitbit device died. While I miss…
No Joke! CNN to air Bill Maher on Friday nights
CNN, whose ratings have continued to crater under new leadership, announced that it will air liberal comedian Bill Maher’s “Overtime” segments on Friday night beginning February 3rd. Maher currently hosts “Real Time with Bill Maher”…