[chickadee]

The Budget Repair Bill doesn't even affect the teachers financially. Their turn comes later. The current bill addresses state workers - which the teachers are not.

But, they do know that one of the things that Scott Walker ran on was decreasing the cost of teachers' health insurance by putting them in the State's health care plan. Surprisingly, they don't like the idea:

It turns out that collective bargaining is one of the ways that the Teacher's Union is stealing from the taxpayers of Wisconsin. A union-mandated high-cost health plan that is owned by the union is milking the taxpayers by charging premiums that far exceed market norms, and are doing so with impunity or apparent recourse.

Wisconsin Teachers Union owns health insurance company - they 'collectively bargained' for

[freekitty]

I thought that was what they were doing all along.

[Vendome]

Eff them.

Pay your way like the rest of us do.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

“Although it represents a lower percentage of the workforce, the union movement during the 1900s has looked to greater involvement in order coalitions, particularly those representing minority groups or the environmental movement.” Source

MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE NOW!

Education unions are heavily invested in:

Multiculturalism

Diversity

TESOL -- Global Education Association (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc)

Eco Movement

Climate Change

Global Warming

***** order coalitions*****