Posted on 02/23/2011 8:15:00 AM PST by opentalk
This is not to say that the concern of NEA and its affiliates with closing achievement gaps, reducing dropout rates, improving teacher quality and the like are unimportant or inappropriate. To the contrary. These are the goals that guide the work we do.
But they need not and must not be achieved at the expense of due process, employee rights and collective bargaining. That simply is too high a price to pay.
sums it up MONEY
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.
Not that I agree with a lot that FDR did...but he had this right.
"In 1962, JFK signed executive order 10988 allowing the unionization of the federal work force. This changed everything in the American political system. Kennedy's order swung open the door for the inexorable rise of a unionized public work force in many states and cities.
This in turn led to the fantastic growth in membership of the public employee unions—The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the teachers' National Education Association. "
This has led to an endless supply of money...Federal Tax Dollars...to enter into the campaign funds of the Democratic Party as well...against the will of many tax payers. IMO, this is unconstitutional. One can make a case that it is taxation without representation.
Great point. Rush has called the process money laundering.
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