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Nov 15, 2023 | 
the74million.org | Mike Antonucci
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter I won’t bury the lede — I’m retiring, and this is my final column. I took the long way around to get to this work. I was an animated film-maker …… and a sheet metal worker and member of Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. I then spent almost eight years in the Air Force as a C-130 navigator.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
the74million.org | Mike Antonucci
Tell us what you think about The 74. Take our survey. The California Teachers Association has long been the most powerful force in shaping the state’s school finance policy. It usually gets what it wants from the legislature, and does even better in preventing things it doesn’t want. But at least in a relative sense, the past five years have not been to CTA’s liking.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
gsb.stanford.edu | Mike Antonucci
If you want to save the world, you have to take a lot of meetings. That’s not so bad when you’re rendezvousing with people at the Sundance Film Festival or aboard a ship bound for Antarctica. But when it’s a year of brunches about the assumption that you’re delusional, an unusual degree of resolve is required. Cue Jeff Skoll. Skoll—a billionaire by way of eBay, where he was the first president—wanted to start a film-production company that would foster social change.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
the74million.org | Mike Antonucci
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter You’re probably familiar with the 1993 movie comedy Groundhog Day, in which the main character finds himself reliving Feb. 2 over and over again. Despite his best efforts to break the cycle, he keeps returning to the same starting point.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
the74million.org | Mike Antonucci
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Each year, the American Federation of Teachers is required to report its income, expenditures and membership to the U.S. Department of Labor. Its disclosures for its fiscal year of July 2022 through June 2023 have just been released, and the union revealed it gained 30,000 members over that period. This would be a triumph for AFT if it didn’t come with a string of asterisks.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
miamitimesonline.com | Mike Antonucci
Federal agents raided the headquarters of Duval Teachers United in Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 6, 2023, carrying away computers and boxes of financial documents. “An investigative team from FBI Jacksonville executed a court-authorized search warrant today in furtherance of a federal investigation,” an agency spokesperson told the Florida Times-Union.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
the74million.org | Mike Antonucci
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Federal agents raided the headquarters of Duval Teachers United in Jacksonville, Florida, on Sept. 6, carrying away computers and boxes of financial documents. “An investigative team from FBI Jacksonville executed a court-authorized search warrant today in furtherance of a federal investigation,” an agency spokesperson told the Florida Times-Union.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
the74million.org | Mike Antonucci
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter September is the season of hope and optimism for America’s unions. The Labor Day holiday provides a platform for them to tout their accomplishments. Politicians line up to extol their virtues. Media outlets run stories on the benefits of unions and publish opinion pieces from union officers. And then there are the polls. Since 1936, Gallup has asked Americans if they approve of labor unions.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
news.yahoo.com | Mike Antonucci
And then there are the polls. Further results from the poll are entirely positive for the labor movement. Large majorities support unions over management in disputes. Most respondents say unions are good for everybody and think they will become stronger in the future. The AFL-CIO had to oversample union members to get these outcomes, but it makes sense that since most Americans are employees, they would more closely identify with the status of workers than with employers.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
the74million.org | Mike Antonucci
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Teachers and education support workers are represented at the bargaining table by an entire alphabet soup of labor unions, such as NEA, AFT, SEIU, AFSCME, IBT, et al. Parents and the public are represented by superintendents and school boards, but at school sites they rely on principals and other supervisors. However, in many of the largest districts, these school managers are also union members.
