St. Paul Teachers Union Orders Members to ‘Pick a Side’ and Walk Out Over Anti-ICE Demands

It's really hard to argue against the notion that public teachers' unions are little more than communist front groups. As we showed you the other day, the Chicago Teachers' Union (CTU) could find the time to travel to Venezuela and rub elbows with Maduro, but they couldn't be bothered to learn how to spell.

It explains why kids in Chicago can't read or do math at grade level.

Now the teachers' union in St. Paul, Minnesota, is issuing demands to ICE and vowing to walk out.

Wow. St. Paul's teacher union is calling on its 3,500+ members pick a side and walk out on the job. They have three demands:

1) ICE to leave Minnesota
2) To prosecute the ICE agent who shot Renee Good
3) Defund ICE

Public teachers unions are communist front groups. https://t.co/GOAZ26SY70 pic.twitter.com/qlCFc24H3t
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) January 14, 2026

They told members to "pick a side" in this debate.

SUBMITTED: St. Paul’s teachers union just told 3,500+ members to “choose what side they’re on” and join a shutdown protest - “no work, no school, and no shopping.”
Letter below 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/sxStHe3qDz
— Jenna Gloeb (@JennaReports) January 14, 2026

The letter to members read:

In 1946, our predecessors went on the first organized teachers’ strike in US history. They went on strike for toilet paper and books, two pressing needs at the time. Their strike was illegal. This decision was not made lightly and educators did what was necessary to meet the needs of their students.
80 years later, we find ourselves at a moment in time — yet again — that demands we stand in our values to protect the lives of our students and their families. Our union has never backed down from challenging and difficult choices. The importance of all of us standing together in community to show our families and our nation that we will hold the line for what is right cannot be understated.
We are at a time where people must choose what side they are on. And just like in 1946, SPFE chooses to be on the side of our students and our St. Paul community.
Yesterday, your SPFE Executive Board agreed to support a Day of Action that calls for no work, no school, and no shopping on Friday, January 23, 2026.
The three demands of this day are:
ICE must leave Minnesota now.
The officer who killed Renee Good must be held legally accountable.
No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget.
SPFE is asking each member to decide for themselves how they will answer the call to this Day of Action, and to this moment at large.
Solidarity isn’t just a noun — it is the most sacred value we hold and action we can take as union.
The time is now.