Posted on 01/19/2018 4:20:33 PM PST by mdittmar
Strong unions help to create strong schools for students and even stronger communities that benefit all of us. This, we know.
Total Bovine Excrement. I attended a local Grammer and High School before it was taken over by the NEA.
The school went downhill from there.
Y’know, Lily—You might be in a little better position if the kids y’all teach could actually read, write, and do math.
Unions are hate groups period. Extortion is their game.
Maybe not really. While unions existed, the big push began after the end of the Civil War. As freed blacks migrated north seeking wages for their only skills - strong backs and high work ethics, unions of WHITE MEN formed to restrict work for the newcomers who undercut wages.
President Trump needs to declare the NEA a terrorist organization and its members enemy combatants.
unions are socialist,everyone should know that.
Sorry, unions are the shackle that is destroying schools; if it wasn’t for your quick maneuvers in the 1970’s and early 1980’s to not fund retirements and kick the can down the road for later school boards to pay (and hey, we need a raise...), there wouldn’t be hundreds of billions in unfunded pension benefits. My local school district is spending 43% of the yearly budget to pay for people who no longer work for the district. Imagine what those funds could mean to schools, much less current teachers operating under slashed retirement benefits and wages because you stole the money first.
socialist and yet antisocial
Strong union government schools have been an abject and total expensive failure.
THAT... WE know.
So just buzz off!
This is Big Education. Like Big Labor. What good its members do is in spite of it, not because of it.
The simple truth that the NEA will NEVER admit is that teachers unions have destroyed education in the USA.
Before there were teachers unions, teachers taught and children learned.
Since teachers unions have been allowed, teachers did everything BUT teach and children have suffered.
Labor unions have nearly ruined America!
Labor unions have ruined America!
National Right to Work is coming!
There will be a huge reversal in Big Labor’s influence in America, IMHO, over the next 7 years — not that POTUS is anti-labor, but that the economy will be so robust, labor unions will lose their credibility and continue to diminish in size and influence.
“In 2016, there were 14.6 million members in the U.S., down from 17.7 million in 1983. The percentage of workers belonging to a union in the United States (or total labor union “density”) was 10.7%, compared to 20.1% in 1983. Union membership in the private sector has fallen under 7% — levels not seen since 1932.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_the_United_States
POTUS does need to break the government labor unions, though! Should be illegal to be a government employee and a member of a labor union, IMHO!
The waning death of unions....good riddance.
Here is the game in California. Union bribes politicians. Politicians vote to increase pay and benefits of union employees. Union increases dues based on new pay levels. Union increases bribes to politicians. Rinse and repeat.
Unfortunately that game is repeated in NY.
We need a court challenge to the practice of negotiating pay and benefits with people you can give money to.
Agreed.
Sure bub.
"When the children start paying union dues I'll start caring about the children."
Even dedicated teachers have their hands tied by humanist, socialist curricula they are forced to follow, thanks, in part, to the NEA. But every once in a while, you still hear stories about an child whose life was changed for the better by a teacher. In most school systems, they’re no longer allowed to run a classroom in a disciplined way. It’s a free for all, where out-of-control kids set the tone and make the rules.
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