Teachers unions are one of the most powerful special interest groups in the country.
But the union bosses running them try to downplay their influence.
And these teacher’s union bosses were caught in one terrible scandal the media wanted to sweep under the rug.
Left-wing news outlets pump out propaganda for Big Labor after payoffs
The pandemic put the damage that teacher’s unions do into the spotlight when they fought to keep classrooms shut down for years.
Big Labor is among the powerful special interest groups in the country that use union dues, often forcibly ripped from their members’ paychecks, to fund a multibillion-dollar political operation electing Democrats.
The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest union in the country with more than three million members.
The American Federation for Teachers (AFT) boasts nearly two million members.
The pandemic generated a lot of negative headlines for teacher’s unions so the NEA and AFT funded some covert propaganda praising their unions.
AFT and the NEA have donated nearly one million dollars to The New Republic, American Prospect, and Courier Newsroom since 2022 according to the unions’ financial disclosure statements.
These left-wing media outlets went on to publish puff pieces praising teacher’s unions after they received from the NEA and AFT without disclosing to readers these payoffs.
Courier Newsroom has reportedly received $500,000 from the NEA and $35,000 from the AFT since 2022.
Cardinal & Pine, Courier Newsroom’s North Carolina outlet, published a video in March of NEA President Rebecca Pringle explaining the importance of teaching students that America is systemically racist.
Dogwood, Courier Newsroom’s Virginia affiliate, ran a story claiming that students would benefit from teachers being forced to accept union representation through monopoly bargaining.
“All these outlets rely on patronage and advertising from ideologically aligned donors and groups to stay afloat, so, of course, the teacher’s unions are supporting their ideological allies,” Capital Research Center research director Michael Watson explained.
Teachers unions fund a public relations campaign to rehab their image
The New Republic ran a series of articles praising the AFT and its president Randi Weingarten that didn’t mention receiving $225,000 from August 2023 to April 2024.
Weingarten was praised for fighting to keep sexually explicit books in schools as part of a fight against conservative efforts to keep inappropriate material out of the classroom.
“This scheme by NEA and AFT is another example of union bosses taking the dues money of teachers they claim to ‘represent’ and pumping it into ideologically-motivated activities designed to promote their coercive and dysfunctional agenda,” National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Vice President Patrick Semmens said.
“It’s been well-known since even before the COVID school reopening debacles that public school systems and the kids within them have suffered irreparable damage as the result of AFT’s and NEA’s extremism and lust for power, so it’s reprehensible yet unsurprising that they are blowing workers’ money on whitewashing their doings under the guise of ‘news,’” Semmens added.
The Prospect ran similar puff pieces without disclosing its union funding.
Teacher unions are funding a covert public relations campaign to rehab their tattered image after the pandemic.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
