by Allie Martin and Jody Brown
The National Education Association, the largest teachers' union in the United States, has been ordered to end its interrogation of teachers who object to the union’s pro-abortion and pro-homosexual agenda.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has told the NEA and its state and local affiliates to put an end to one of its most notorious methods of discriminating against religious objectors. That method? Forcing teachers to annually file a lengthy objection to paying forced union dues.
Dan Cronin is with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a union watchdog group. Cronin says the EEOC settlement is just one small obstacle that has been eliminated for teachers who refuse to support the NEA’s far-left political agenda — but he wishes the government agency had gone even further.
“I wish the EEOC, of course, had come out and said it's unfair to force any teacher to pay union dues as a condition of employment [or] it's unfair to force teachers to have to support the NEA's radical agenda, regardless of their faith,” Cronin says. “I wish they had totally liberated teachers from that. But unfortunately, that's not going to happen. We just have to keep fighting at it every single day to make sure that teachers and workers around this country are liberated from compulsory unionism.”
Cronin says the EEOC ruling is a step in the right direction, and will likely help other teachers across the county. He says his organization deals with complaints about the NEA on a regular basis.
“Typically we get about a hundred calls and e-mails a year from teachers around the country, and most of them get resolved pretty quickly,” he says. “But I'd say we have about ten to twenty cases in the courts right now involving teachers around the nation … who have been forced to support the NEA's radical agenda that they consider immoral, and the NEA and its state and local affiliates have continued to harass them.”
Cronin is hopeful the new EEOC directive will deter the NEA from engaging in future discrimination — but he predicts the NEA will likely devise a new way to harass religious objectors.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)
