Posted on 10/02/2008 10:25:09 AM PDT by bayliving
The teachers union has been handing out thousands of Barack Obama campaign buttons to its members, sparking a clampdown by education brass.
The Department of Education - which has a long-standing policy barring teachers from wearing campaign buttons in schools - is set to send out an e-mail this week from Schools Chancellor Joel Klein laying down the law.
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"Schools are not a place for politics and not a place for staff to wear political buttons," said department spokeswoman Ann Forte.
Well, that is blue NY.
I sometimes hear references to the “uneducated” voting for McCain. Heh! I cannot think of a more uneducated class of people than those with “education “ degrees. Guess they need the buttons so that our “teachers” can match the name on the button with the name on the voting ticket.
said this in an earlier post
I called the NEA as my wife is in the union and asked them why union fees should go to obama and help him get elected as we don’t want him to be.
They replied at first that they are a political group and then they tried to retract that when I said no you are there to protect jobs and benefits.
should be a law saying that those who do not want their fees going to a candidate don’t have to see their money go there to get them elected
They wanna play? Ok... Let's play!
“should be a law saying that those who do not want their fees going to a candidate don’t have to see their money go there to get them elected”
There is.
The Permissible Uses of Forced Union Dues:
From Hanson to Beck
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-174.html
On April 13, 1992, in what many consider to be nothing more than an act of political opportunism, President Bush issued Executive Order 12800, which requires all federal contractors to inform their employees of their “Beck rights.” The order stems from a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court opinion, Communications Workers of America v. Beck, in which the Court declared that employees forced to pay union dues under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) do not have to contribute to a union’s partisan political activities. The Communications Workers of America had been using as much as 79 percent of Harry Beck’s dues for such activities, almost all in support of Democratic party candidates.
It used to be policy that government employees not wear buttons or actively campaign for any candidate. Maybe someone boohoo-ed about their civil rights. Somebody up top said “OK, just don’t talk about religion.”
ah thank you for that I will be calling the NEA back and informing them of this
You may want to do some digging and make sure that some subsequent legislation or executive order or court ruling has not overturned this. I think it still stands and may have even heard Obama come out in favor of overturning this but I don’t have good recall.
will do thanks
obama over turning this, that is not a surprise if it is right
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