“Red for Ed”–communists who own America’s public schools
What’s the only labor union in America chartered by Congress?
The National Education Assn., of course–since 1906.
Reps Scott Fitzgerald and Jim Banks have introduced a bill to repeat the giant teachers’ union’s Congressional charter (https://www.wispolitics.com/2022/u-s-rep-fitzgerald-introduces-nea-charter-repeal-act/).
What does that mean? The charter states “the mission, authority, and activities of a group.” It lends legitimacy to any group that has it. In fact, the granting of a charter is a symbolic gesture–sort of a Congressional Seal of Approval to the Far Left teachers’ union.
Repealing the charter would be another symbolic gesture.
Why should it be repealed? Because the NEA has virtually nothing to do with “education”! Over 95% of the funds it donates to politics goes to the Democrat Party. In 2019-2021 the union spent over $116 million on lobbying. It has become a purely political entity and an apparatus of the Democrat Party. Why should the American people, through Congress, salute them for it?
Probably Republicans can’t revoke the charter just now. First the Democrats need to be crushed in this year’s midterm elections. A Republican-controlled House in 2023 might be ready to take this first step toward stripping the NEA of its power to damage America.