Columbus, OH – The Buckeye Institute won another legal victory, this time for Beth Queen, a science teacher in Poland, Ohio, and Buckeye’s client in Queen v. NEA. Immediately after The Buckeye Institute filed the case, the Ohio Education Association agreed to settle the dispute to Ms. Queen’s satisfaction.

“With this settlement, the OEA properly recognized Ms. Queen’s claims and avoided costly and protracted litigation for all involved,” said Jay R. Carson, senior litigator at The Buckeye Institute and an attorney representing Ms. Queen.

For more than 30 years, Beth Queen has been a high school science teacher, teaching students at Poland Seminary High School for 26 years. Happy with the union representation for most of her teaching career, Ms. Queen was a member of multiple unions in multiple districts for decades, even serving on union committees. That was until the Poland Education Association negotiated away part of Ms. Queen’s pay. In the new collective bargaining agreement that will take effect in September 2025, the union approved the removal of the stipend that paid any Poland biology teacher who teaches college courses for Youngstown State University. Ms. Queen was one of Poland’s teachers who took on this additional work, teaching biology courses and the associated lab courses that are required. 

Queen v. NEA was filed in Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas.

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