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The NEA obtained this power pretty much by asking for it and by default. The obtained it when public employees were allowed to organize. The obtained it when school boards knucked under to strike threats instead of saying "fine, you want to strike? you're all fired. And we'll staff the schools with adminstrators and volunteers until you come crawling back without the union or we can hire certifed teachers or get the volunteers certified. And by the way, no more tenure. No politics."

Public unions can be broken, Reagan did it, Thatcher did it. It takes will and the will to mobilize resources to do without the 'withheld labor' of the unionistas.

They obtained it when public employees were allowed to organize. They obtained it when school boards knuckled under to strike threats...

The right of public employee's to strike needs to be resolved, and soon (within 50 years). I do not believe that an employee of a government entity has a natural right to strike. The employee of a private entity has the natural right to withhold his labor, as the opposite would be slavery.

Employee's of public institutions, by virtue of the inherent security of government employment and the publics reliance on a monopoly of labor, i.e. police , fire, should not have the right to strike. They should, however, be granted immediate access to the courts for the resolution of grievances.

"Public unions can be broken..."

It's time to bust the National Education ~~Association~~ Union.

Help Defund the National Education ~~Association~~ Union

The obtained it when school boards knucked under to strike threats instead of saying "fine, you want to strike? you're all fired. And we'll staff the schools with adminstrators and volunteers until you come crawling back without the union or we can hire certifed teachers or get the volunteers certified. And by the way, no more tenure. No politics."

Very true. Now all we have to do is deal with the soccer-mom/useful idiots who will vote for anything if it's "for the children." These selfish, lazy, unthinking morons are the ones who help the marxists maintain their power and cash flow. The school districts know this and play to them come time for a new tax levy to go on the ballot. You can threaten to reduce administrators and staff and they don't even flinch...but threaten to cut Johnny's soccer team or (GASP) football program and they will vote away everything that they own, as well as everything of their neighbors. I have voted against every school levy since I reach age 18, and I'll vote against every school levy every time there is one on the ballot.