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Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, wants to win “it all.” She wants the nation’s largest teachers union to win all the power, all the elections, and all the progressive demands that radical union activists want.
Unfortunately, Pringle’s union is not out to “win” a better education system for our nation’s struggling students.
Last week, before the NEA’s staff union closed the organization’s annual meeting, Pringle delivered an impassioned, even delirious, speech in which he called on NEA delegates to “Do this job! We must do this job! We can do this job! We will do this job.”
On July 4, Becky Pringle, president of the National Federation of Labor Unions, delivered an impassioned, even delirious, speech at the union’s annual meeting in Philadelphia. (YouTube/Screenshot)
She shouted to the 7,000 union activists gathered: “NEA, we have to win it all. Everything, everything…we have to win it all!”
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Pringle spoke for about 30 minutes but didn’t seem to have time to express concern about the harmful, lingering effects of COVID-era school closures, including widening achievement gaps, severe learning loss and increased chronic absenteeism.
Instead, Pringle lamented the “poisonous spores of an unfair Supreme Court,” vowed to fight against educational freedom (“vouchers”), praised union strikes that closed schools, and highlighted legislative victories to keep sexually explicit books in schools.
She also pledged her support for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who she called “the strongest defender of the labor movement in the history of our country.”
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Ironically, Pringle lost the support of his own union shortly after his emotional shout of “Win it all!”
The National Education Association Employees Organization (NEASO) began a strike last week, cancelling the organization’s annual summer convention, which officials did to Ms. Pringle shortly after she gave a speech bragging about the local NEA chapter walkout.
They refused to continue the work, resulting in the cancellation of the final three days of the multi-million dollar annual meeting and sending thousands of NEA delegates home.
President Biden was scheduled to speak on Sunday, but his campaign declared, “President Biden is a staunch supporter of labor unions and will not cross picket lines.”
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NEA officials accuse the union of “wage theft” and withholding information about “outsourcing more than $50 million to contractors.” NEASO also claims that NEA “abandoned union values with its actions at the bargaining table.”
The NEA responded to the staff union’s demands by expressing concern that “misinformation is being spread about contract negotiations.” So, one of the most powerful unions in the country is claiming that their union is spreading misinformation? Honestly, it’s fun to watch this unfold.
It’s no fun, and actually quite sad, that students in Portland, Oregon, Youngstown, Ohio, and Newton, Massachusetts missed weeks of school last school year because of a long-running teachers’ union strike. Last year, local chapters of the National Association of Teachers (NEA) shut down schools across the country in a long-running strike.
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That’s what labor unions do: they throw a tantrum when their excessive demands are not met and punish everyone they can with strikes.
Vice President Kamala Harris shakes hands with National Education Association President Becky Pringle during the National Education Association’s Annual Meeting and Delegate Gathering on July 5, 2022, in Chicago. (Tannen Morley/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
In an ideal world, the NEA would learn a lesson from the NEASO strike and call off plans for next year’s strike, but that’s not going to happen.
Before the National Education Association’s annual conference drew to a close, union representatives voted on several items of business, including plans to intensify strike action over the next school year, as parents and students prepare for more labor unrest and learning disruptions.
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While striking NEA employees continue to “strike for union values” and local teachers unions develop strike strategies, parents should begin researching alternatives to union-controlled local public schools.
Fortunately, many states have created and expanded school choice programs in recent years. Parents and students have a right to freedom from a strike-ridden public K-12 system and should embrace the opportunity for educational freedom in their communities.
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