News Archive
Pennsylvania Employee Sues Union and the State Over Broken Contract
News Release | The Fairness Center
June 12, 2025: “Veteran state employee Todd Burns was in line for a well-deserved promotion until state officials allegedly violated his employment contract to promote someone less qualified but who had close ties to management. Burns turned to his union for help, only for AFSCME, Council 13, to refuse to defend the contract, despite his many years as a dues-paying member.”
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Defenders Are Massive First Amendment Hypocrites
Op-Ed | The Hill
May 13, 2025: “As a recently retired teacher who was a member of the union for decades, color me skeptical of the union’s commitment to the First Amendment. When I spoke against a union-approved DEI program and came under fire from school officials for my opinion, the union hung me out to dry.”
Oswego Teacher Sues Union That Used to Represent Him Over Wages Deducted from Paycheck
News | Oswego County News Now
March 13, 2025: “A longtime teacher at Oswego High School is suing the two unions that represented him, and their presidents, for wages taken from his paycheck, after he informed them he longer wanted to be a member.”
Why Trump’s Anti-Semitism Crackdown Should Worry UC Berkeley Union
Op-Ed | The Orange County Register
February 20, 2025: “Following President Trump’s executive order to combat anti-Semitism came reports that his administration has opened investigations at five U.S. universities—including at UC Berkeley…But investigators would be wise to also examine the role unions have played. My own lawsuit…should be enough to raise alarm bells.”
Israeli UC Berkeley Student Files Lawsuit Against Anti-Semitic Discrimination
News | The Jerusalem Post
February 6, 2025: “‘I tried to reform the union from within but was greeted only by more hate and abuse. I hope my lawsuit shows the thousands of others represented by the union what it is saying and doing in their name and ends the harassment I’ve experienced.’”
Lawsuit: UC Berkeley Researcher Claims Union Targeted Israeli Jews for Discrimination
News Release | The Fairness Center
January 27, 2025: “It was like a knife in the back of UC Berkeley’s Jewish community when, less than a week after the horror and death of October 7, the union issued a statement condemning Israel. Since that time, union officials have only twisted that knife by systematically discriminating against Jews…I hope my lawsuit ends the union’s culture of anti-Semitism and holds accountable those responsible for it.”
UC Berkeley Jewish Israeli Researcher Sues Local UAW Union Over Alleged Antisemitic Actions
News | Fox News
January 24, 2025: “Karin Yaniv filed suit on Friday against her local UAW chapter, alleging she and other Israeli Jews were excluded from full union participation based on their ethnicity. The suit alleges union members acted in a hostile, discriminatory and antisemitic manner, which her lawyers say is a violation of the Civil Rights Act and California law.”
SCOTUS Urged to Hear Jewish Professors’ Case Against Forced Union Representation Law
News | The Center Square
December 31, 2024: “Professor Avraham Goldstein told The Center Square that he and his colleagues ‘are challenging the Taylor Law because it imposes on us the representation of a union that is actively and vocally anti-Israel, that supports harassing Zionist Jews, and that passed a resolution denying Jewish people their historical rights to their ancestral homeland…We would rather have no representation at all.’”
A Ca. Teacher Was Denied A Union Board Seat Because of His Race. He Fought Back-And Won
News | National Review
October 30, 2024: “Isaac Newman watched as his California school district and the teachers union that purports to represent him poured millions of taxpayer dollars into Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training. After experiencing the impact of that spending first hand, Newman decided to do something about it.”