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Tag: Michigan Education Association

Mackinac Center On Fox News

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Sat Dec 14, 2013 at 10:10:13 AM EST
Tags: Michigan Education Association, MEA, Miriam Chanski, Contracts, August Window, RTW, FTW, Patrick Wright, Mackinac Center, Legal Foundation, Neal Erickson, Public Schools (all tags)

As you might know, the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation is representing kindergarten teacher Miriam Chanski, and others,in a class suit against the Michigan education association.

The foundation explains:

"The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation is filing a lawsuit on behalf of Miriam Chanski and several other plaintiffs against the Michigan Education Association over the union's misreading of Michigan's right-to-work law. The union is enforcing an outdated policy referred to as the "August Window," which limits members' ability to exercise their first amendment rights to one month out of the year. .. "

And elsewhere, the MEA is pushing its own rules, or at least those it sees in a contract it says must be enforced

"On March 26, 2013 WB-RC officials offered a $10,000 buyout for any qualifying teacher who left the school district that year, an incentive superintendent Dan Cwayna said the district had used in the past to encourage needed staff reductions.
While its not clear when Erickson's employment was terminated, the union's action suggests he was still on the payroll when the buyout was offered and accepted it.
The school district declined to pay him the money, prompting the union's action."

Which brings us to last nights discussion on Hannity with Patrick Wright, and plaintiff Miriam Chanski.

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Last-Minute Union-Friendly Decision

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Sat Jan 01, 2011 at 09:31:03 PM EST
Tags: Michigan State Supreme Court, Michigan Education Association, Secretary of State, Michigan Campaign Finance Act, rule-of-law, creative interpretation, Mary Beth Kelly, Robert Young, Alton Davis, Terri Lynn Land, stare decisis (all tags)

On November 2, 2010, the voters of Michigan elected Judge Mary Beth Kelly to the state's highest court. Combined with the re-election of Justice Robert Young, they turned out Justice Alton Davis and restored a rule-of-law majority to that bench. That's a good thing. Unfortunately, that proper refereeing mentality didn't actually exist on SCOMI until noon on New Year's Day . . . when Justice-elect Kelly was sworn in.

This meant that, for the two months between Election Day and Inauguration Day, a rule-of-empathy majority still existed on Michigan's State Supreme Court. And just like the legislature, the high priesthood of creative interpretation held a lame-duck session, in which they've managed to come up with a way to screw us all.