[GOPJ]

And now the best part. The local president can find reasons to void an election. In all my years in the union, the union bosses lost only once. That was amazing. But we didn’t get to celebrate for long. “There was no quorum,” said the union president. We must re-vote, this time by mail-in ballot.” Guess who won the re-vote? It sure wasn’t the challengers. A group of us went to see a labor lawyer about this. He was sympathetic. But he didn’t take our retainer money. Everything the union president did was within the union bylaws, he said.

That's much worse than I thought. And it explains a lot... Again, thanks for sharing. (do you see any changes that could be made to state laws to blunt some of the worst stuff liberal education unions are doing?)

[Leaning Right]

> do you see any changes that could be made to state laws to blunt some of the worst stuff liberal education unions are doing? <

As bad as they are, the unions have no control over what is being taught in the schools. And they have no control over discipline procedures. Unions can huff and puff. And they can put out position papers. But the real power rests with local school boards and the state.

In my school district, things changed around the year 2000. Our school board started to bring in liberal consultants to write courses of study. And so we ended up with nonsensically woke curricula. Most of us teachers hated it. But teaching the new courses of study wasn’t optional. The best we could do was try to mitigate the damage as much as possible.

On the state level, laws were passed to make it very difficult to discipline disruptive students. Classes became more chaotic.

So while it’s easy to kick the unions (and they deserve to be kicked), real change must come by winning school board elections and state legislature elections. I live in a Democrat-leaning state. So am not optimistic about that.