I would think that leaving the union would be a badge of honor. Wear it proudly (like the union label).
A football player in a high school near Akron Ohio was yesterday suspended from school for handing in a not-so-nice poem about a team mate.
He was accused of “hazing” and “harassment” on the basis of the words he wrote in his poem.
Bullying? This is an outright threat to the non-union members and an invitation by union thugs to do something stupid to them and their families.
The naming is just Step One. Once the name is out there, THEN the mysterious car vandalism and harassment at home late at night begins.
Today’s unions are not anything like the unions of old which were much needed until our laws caught up with society.
The average union today is simply a fund raiser for the CPUSA (Communist Party USA) and of course the DNC which depends on a huge base of lower intellect voters.
Given our plethora of labor laws on the books a strong case could be made by the remaining honest people among us that there is no longer any need for unions in the USA.
Fortunately for all unions, the main supplier of low intellect voters, public schools, are repleat with union protected teachers assuring a steady stream of Progressive brainwashed students to head on to colleges filled with communist professors.
It is amazing we have held up for so long given the magnitude of the enemy within.
That agenda, since appropriated by "progressive" forces, reveals the degree to which the learning performance and character development of children has been subjugated to the "progressive" political agenda for America.
Far from being what many teachers have believed them to be--a teachers' professional organization for improving learning performance of children--the NEA has become the major leader in advancing the so-called "progressive" agenda for fundamentally changing America.
By forcibly extracting hundreds of millions of dollars from teachers to advance its own agenda, the teachers' unions have lined the coffers of Democrats and other politicians who would listen to their demands.
Suggest a visit here, and here.
"When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children." - Albert Shanker, former AFT head
I didn’t read the article. It is to long for the amount of coffee that I have had.
I was shamed by the union while I was still in it. These people have little ethics and I was shamed being associated with them. I got out and I only admit that I was in the union. They wanted me to vote for that traitor John Hanoi Kerry. They wanted me to write letters to my congressman for things I could not in couscous support.
Some people you just explain things to them.
Others you have to persuade.
Some people need a nudge.
Unions exist to use threat of force, as a conspiracy in restraint of trade.
Any Italian immigrant off the boat knew how to drive a team of horses. The relationship between the Teamsters and the Mafia to coerce Italian immigrants as necessary to prevent them from participating in that market was the only lever that the Teamsters had.
They actively published those names
Nothing “passive” about it
I wonder if a non-union newsletter listed the names of union members if it would be excused like that state rep guy did?
In most States where people are freed from the jackboot of communist union bosses by passage of right to work laws, the membership flees and stops paying dues ASAP
Seems like most teachers in Michigan aren’t too bright