Traditionally, teachers unions have kept a laserlike focus on improving members’ pay, benefits, and working conditions.
Now, though, teachers unions are diverting their energies from fighting for the well-being of teachers to fighting over a host of unrelated issues. Teachers unions now have foreign policies.
For example, the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the state affiliate of the National Education Association, decided to throw its full weight behind opposition to Israel’s effort to defeat the Hamas terrorist group and rescue its hostages in the Gaza Strip.
A measure adopted by the Massachusetts union’s board in December declared: “The MTA president and vice president will urge the president of the NEA to pressure President Biden to stop funding and sending weapons in support of the Netanyahu government’s genocidal war on the Palestinian people in…
