Inside AFT: Attacking educators for exercising their legal right to organize

The AFT has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board charging the leadership of Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy in Washington, D.C., with violating federal labor law by retaliating against its own workers for unionizing and then closing its doors without warning. “Chavez Schools has become Exhibit A in how unregulated charters routinely ignore the transparency and accountability that public schools are bound to uphold,” AFT President Randi Weingarten says. “We are asking that management respect both the law and the educators who have worked so hard to give their kids a shot at a better life.”