Teacher Unions
Union leaders and their allies have used their political power to push aside parents, families, and classroom teachers to dominate public education in ways that harm students and limit their opportunities. Rather than focus on academic rigor, individual learning, and innovative teaching, union activists pursue a woke ideological agenda in classrooms that ignores sound academics and causes good classroom teachers to leave the profession. DFI works to hold teacher unions accountable and expose the harm that they continue to cause students, families and teachers.
Teacher Union Strike Map
Teacher union strikes are an abuse of power and hurt students. That’s why most states outlaw strikes by public school teachers.
Typically, laws require schools to provide 180 days of school instruction. Yet, big union bosses have called for strikes at an increasing rate–closing schools and holding students and families hostage across the country until their demands are met.
To make matters worse, the unions negotiate with the very people they helped elect to office, which means no one is at the negotiating table representing students and their interests. This must stop.
To provide a clearer understanding of this abuse of power, DFI developed a strike tracker to map strikes conducted nationwide by the largest teacher unions, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), from 2010 to the present.
If you know about strike actions not included in the map, please alert us at union.strikes@dfipolicy.org.
- All
- NEA Strikes (79)
- NEA and AFT Strikes (5)
- AFT Strikes (20)