Lauren Bowen is the mouthpiece for the anti-worker Fake Freedom Foundation, a front group bought and paid for by anti-worker, anti-union billionaires like Betsy DeVos, the Koch Family, the Bradley Foundation and others.

Lauren Bowen is making harmful claims about hardworking teachers and school administrators.
She blames teachers and at-home learning for kids’ depression and low test scores, even suicides. Yes, suicides.

Here is what Lauren Bowen recently wrote: “at least educators will get a two-week reprieve while displaced students continue to deal with the real epidemic caused by two years’ worth of enforced distance learning — lower test scores, reduced motivation, depression, substance abuse and even suicide.”

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Lauren Bowen is a hypocrite. She supports online charter schools that have distance learning like ECOT and attacks public school teachers who want to keep their students, families, our communities and themselves safe.

The Fake Freedom Foundation is a front group that is willing to do and say anything to appease their true masters.  

It’s wrong and horribly cruel to imply that Ohio’s teachers – the men and women who spend every day educating the next generation – are failing our kids.

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New evidence shows that unions played a major role in reducing income inequality in the United States in the decades when organized labor was strong.

But it also demonstrates that the decline in union power since the 1960s — which may be exacerbated as a result of a recent Supreme Court decision— has contributed to the widening gap between rich and poor.

The new insights come from a working paper, “Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data,” by four economists: Henry Farber, Daniel Herbst and Ilyana Kuziemko of Princeton, and Suresh Naidu of Columbia. They establish that unions have constrained income inequality far beyond their own membership ranks.

While the scholars can’t pinpoint the precise mechanism at work, they speculate that unions have indirectly increased pay at firms nervous that their own employees might organize. Unions have also lobbied for higher minimum wages and pushed to hold down executive salaries. They have also advocated for broader access to health care, countering a key channel through which income inequality can harm all of society.

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Right-to-work is steeped in deception, starting with the title. It does not bring in new business, but rather puts corporate profits before the public good.

Former Rep. Eric Burlison (R133) sponsored A.L.E.C.’s RTW fill-in-the-blank legislation, putting a thumb on the scale, favoring corporate owners over workers.

RTW is bipartisan, harming all “employees” across the political spectrum by destroying worker protections and benefits and gutting pensions.

More than 55 percent of non-union workers are subject to forced arbitration through their employment contracts. Workers only win 21 percent of the time, with settlements averaging $100,000. They win 57 percent of the time in state court with settlements running around $500,000. Since attorneys’ fees are based on settlement amount, they are less likely to take an arbitration case. Injured workers are left with a stacked deck.

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In a case involving the rights of tens of millions of private sector employees, the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, delivered a major blow to workers, ruling for the first time that workers may not band together to challenge violations of federal labor laws.

Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch said that the 1925 Federal Arbitration Act trumps the National Labor Relations Act and that employees who sign employment agreements to arbitrate claims must do so on an individual basis — and may not band together to enforce claims of wage and hour violations.

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