Posted on 04/11/2010 10:19:26 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
Republicans love to bash Education Minnesota, claiming the statewide teachers union and its powerful lobbying force essentially control the Democratic Party.
But this legislative session, the union is alienating even some of its DFL allies. Observers say relationships are strained because of the union's resistance to proposed reforms — particularly bringing in new teachers and stabilizing the statewide pension for educators.
"I'm just absolutely frustrated with some of the stances they're taking on the issues," said DFL Rep. Marsha Swails, who is an English teacher at Woodbury High School. "Maybe all those folks in the Education Minnesota building are a little too far removed from the classroom."
The teachers union has a history of making enemies with governors. Governors from three parties since the 1980s, including DFL Gov. Rudy Perpich, ended up as foes.
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What part about the fact that an ‘education’ degree is among the easiest to get, there are lots of good teachers out there that are not - and would not - join a union do the union bottom O’the barrel SAT dwellers not understand?
Just fire the b*stards and Hillarys.
Period.
Education Minnesota?
Uhhh,, you mean Indoctrination Minnesota,
No?
The unions are always loathesome towards those that own the purse strings.
In South Florida, the teachers are striking tomorrow. They want Govenor Crist to veto a new bill that takes away their tenure. God forbid teachers have to work with the same standards as the rest of us who hold REAL jobs.
And if that fat bastard Ton Dooher would skip a couple of meals, we could feed the hungry in MN....
Coming from a DFLer???
"Maybe all those folks in the Education Minnesota building are a little too far removed from the classroom."
I had to repeat THAT one!
We already are and then some....
If you look at the states that are furthest down the socialist toilet, clinging by their fingertips to the rim of the bowl, it’s always the states with the biggest and most corrupt teachers unions. New Jersey, California, Minnesota, New York....
Every single teacher in this country should have their tenure taken away. I can't think of a single good reason why teachers should have tenures while normal working men, including all them miners that just died in the coalmines in Virgina, don't even come close to having tenures.
“God forbid teachers have to work with the same standards as the rest of us who hold REAL jobs”
Pretty much.
Republican administrations across the clountry should take on these Teachers’ Unions, irrespective of how long they strike. If they go in strike, just CUT OFF their pay for as long as they stay on strike.
We really need a Margaret Tatcher here. I was in Britain when she took on the toughest unions in Britain, Arthur Scargill's National Union of Mineworkers in one of the nastiest, most violent strikes I have ever seen, and simply crushed them. Today, they are pale shadow of what they used to be before.
The point is, right now voters are in a mood for a really nasty, knuckle down fight with these arrogant, Marxist unions, who are bleeding us dry and contributing to the unsustainable massive deficits we are racking up.
"At a time when most Minnesotans are either not getting pay increases or getting furloughs at work or even layoffs, we should expect the public sector to hold down pay increases and benefit increases - and too many of our school districts seem to be giving those away and at the same time complaining they don't have any money," Pawlenty told reporters Tuesday in White Bear Lake. "And those two things don't add up."
So while those of us in the private sector have done without pay raises or COLA and suffer the threat of layoffs everyday, the PUBLIC sector has to make do with smaller raises as they are expected to "hold down pay increases and benefit increases". Not suspend them. Hold them down.
Fighting against the liberal government and unions is one and the same thing now.
It's really good to see the naked face of the enemy from time to time.Who pays their salaries?
Sure, teachers pay taxes too, but all other taxpayers do not set their own salaries through intimidation and the false notion that it's "for the children."
It's all about greed. Just like wall street and politics.
Time to clean the stables.
Unions are permissible only when there is no compulsion to use them.
Public employment is permanently in the category of impermissible union membership. Once upon a time, that was self-evident.
And union membership, of course.
To them, teaching is just another form of welfare that they are "entitled" to.
Do I respect teachers as a group?
Hell no. Haven't for a long time.
Do I respect some teachers at all levels?
Absolutely.
But those are not the ones we usually hear from, in painfully illiterate terms....
If we really care about education and children then we need to abolish all unions in the education industry. They are the most anti-children and anti-education force in America today. Most good teachers reluctantly pay their dues, but do not support their agenda. But the unions are not controlled by the teachers, they are controlled by the usual left wing thugs that control most unions. The same ones who destroyed the steel industry, the shipbuilding industry, auto industry, etc.
Always remember: The number 1 priority — far above all other priorities — of any union is the preservation of the union.
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