When are you people going to realize that a union operates for the "average" teacher. If you are a really good teacher and actually should be paid more than a truly lousy teacher, your union prevents that from happening. Unions suppress the talented, the productive, and the exceptional while elevating the bad, unproductive, and also-ran members.
I disagree. Unions seem to always operate at the level of the lowest member. In the eyes of the union, no member deserves dismissal, or even reprimand. This is why teachers unions support even pedophiles in their ranks.
And if the teachers are instructed by the union to cease doing any “extra” work the union workers spy on each other and bully anyone caught doing said “extra” work.
they are better at political activism since they are beholden to the unions
the best teachers deserve to be paid accordingly, they are always the ones left to fend for themselves