The National Education Association (NEA) is witnessing a significant outflow of members for the sixth consecutive year. NEA President Becky Pringle would have you believe that the fault is with dwindling student enrollment or decreased money, but these are not the real issues. The real issue, according to the union’s most recent financial report, is the NEA’s obvious preference for a radical political agenda over member representation, which will cause the union to lose more than 12,000 members in 2023.
For many years, union membership rates have been declining. Regretfully for Big Labor, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Janus v. AFSCME (2018), which unequivocally recognized public employees’ First Amendment freedom to renounce their union membership, accelerated this downward trend.
