Va. Code § 40.1-57.2 (effective May 1, 2021). 

Timothy M. McConville, Esq., New Virginia Labor Law Makes Localities an Offer They Can’t Refuse, (Dec. 21, 2020) https://praemialaw.com/blog/f/new-va-labor-law-makes-localities-an-offer-they-cant-refuse (republished in Employment Law Daily, Wolters Kluwer) (explaining issues arising from   Virginia public-sector bargaining statute, to be confronted by localities’ decisionmakers).

Just Say No, Nat’l Right to Work Comm. (explaining why public-sector union bargaining in Virginia will have a negative impact on taxpayers and employees) (document attached in section above).

F. Vincent Vernuccio, Alexandria City Staff Urges Restraint on Government Union Negotiations, Jefferson Pol’y J. (Mar. 9, 2021), https://jeffersonpolicyjournal.com/alexandria-city-staff-urges-restraint-on-government-union-negotiations/ (critiquing Alexandria’s new public-sector collective bargaining proposals which could hinder the city’s ability to respond to emergencies and could cost city taxpayer’s $1 million annually).

Stephen D. Haner, May Day Brings Virginia’s Labor Revolution, Jefferson Pol’y J. (Mar. 31, 2021), https://jeffersonpolicyjournal.com/may-day-brings-virginias-labor-revolution/ (explaining how Virginia’s new public-sector union law is not about helping city employees, but rather is about politics and power). 

Susannah Moore, Alexandria Seeks to Lead the Way in Virginia in Collective Bargaining for Employees, Alexandria Living Magazine (Feb. 18, 2021), https://alexandrialivingmagazine.com/news/alexandria-leading-virginia-in-collective-bargaining-2021-virginia/ (defending Alexandria’s efforts in passing a collective bargaining ordinance for city employees, but recognizing that the Virginia law leaves open issues pertaining to the scope of collective bargaining, the number of recognized bargaining units, and the model system to be used for collective bargaining).

Mark Mix, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ Disdain for the American Worker, Wash. Times (Sept. 1, 2020), https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/1/joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-disdain-for-the-americ/ (highlighting Kamala Harris’ stance against Right to Work laws while also acknowledging that Big Labor undercuts the economic interest of many teachers).

Parents, Children Flee from Monopolistic Unionism, Nat’l Right to Work Comm. (Nov. 23, 2020), https://nrtwc.org/parents-children-flee-from-monopolistic-unionism/ (exploring the correlation between high academic performance and public educators’ Right to Work). 

Bradley D. Marianno et al., Power in a Pandemic: Teachers’ Unions and Their Responses to School Reopening (showing a national trend that school districts with teachers’ unions which negotiate collective bargaining agreements were less likely to move to in-person class instruction in fall 2020, than those districts without collective bargaining agreements).

Lawrence W. Kenny & Johnathan Lott, State Teacher Union Strength and Student Achievement, 35 Econ. of Educ. Rev. 93 (2013) (exploring evidence that students have lower test scores in school districts in which the teachers’ unions have negotiated collective bargaining agreements).  

Bradley D. Marianno, Teachers’ Unions: Scapegoats or Bad-Faith Actors in COVID-19 School Reopening Decisions, Brookings(Mar. 25, 2021), https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2021/03/25/teachers-unions-scapegoats-or-bad-faith-actors-in-covid-19-school-reopening-decisions/ (explaining how powerful teachers’ unions slowed school reopening decisions during the pandemic).

Matthew L. Kelly & Stan Liebowitz, Fixing the Bias in Current State K-12 Education Rankings, Cato Inst.(Nov. 13, 2018), https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/fixing-bias-current-state-k-12-education-rankings (explaining how racial diversity among students affects state’s school rankings).