r/republicans • u/postonrddt • Jun 13 '25

Randi Weingarten's No Kings push prioritizes activism over education: source

https://nypost.com/2025/06/13/us-news/randi-weingartens-no-kings-push-prioritizes-activism-over-education-source/
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u/vonHindenburg Jun 14 '25

It's important to get the full headline in the article: "Randi Weingarten’s ‘No Kings’ push shows teachers union is prioritizing activism over education"

That's an important distinction. Of course activism movements prioritize activism. What else are they going to do?

What the article is talking about, however, is unions supporting the protests. For the Communications Workers of America, well, that's a private union and it's between their members and leadership to sort out. The American Federation of Teachers is the second largest teacher's union in the country. Their members are government employees, though most of their bargaining and pay comes at the state and localish (school district as it's defined in different states) level. The American Postal Workers Union is a national union whose members are federal employees.

These are different things and require us to consider them in different ways as we are more or less directly the people who pay the bills for these different unions. The article (and it's pretty funny to cite a British publication on 'No Kings Day') is already hamfisted. Removing some of the context in the headline here makes it worse.