Randi Weingarten certainly knows how to game the system. This time it involves her book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy.” To write this manifesto, she raided the union coffers.
American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten tapped hundreds of thousands in union resources to help write her controversial book — working with a team that raked in more than $1.4 million from the labor group, a new analysis found.
Weingarten used the abundance of union-fueled resources for the liberal agenda-pushing “Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy,” then pocketed a portion of the proceeds, the Freedom Foundation claimed in a new report.
Her team included an attorney who supposedly worked on the book pro bono but whose firm raked in $977,000 for various work for AFT, as well as a supposed “ghost writer” who earned over $400,000 overall from the union, the report said.
Read that again. She took $1.4 million dollars of union dues from the AFT and spent it on a ghost writer, a photographer, attorneys, and more.
These dues are SUPPOSED to be used for workplace representation. They are SUPPOSED to be used to support teachers. Union dues, to the tune of $1.4 million dollars are not supposed to be used to write a ‘look at MEEEEEE’ book!
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