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“People I don’t even know are calling me horrible names,” said Ms. Corfield, an art teacher who had pleaded the case of struggling teachers. “The mantra is that the problem is the unions, the unions, the unions.”

Simple question - what are the unions doing to better serve the costumers?

For public employee unions, particularly those in the education realm, what is the union doing to make yyour products better - more children educated to a level that allows them to compete in a global marketplace.

If teacher X can't answer that, then teacher X should rethink where the dues are going and the kind of policies that the union supported elected officials back.

Public employee unions are a problem, plain and simple.

>If teacher X can't answer that, then teacher X should rethink where the dues are going and the kind of policies that the union supported elected officials back.

You are joking, right?
The teachers know exactly what they are supporting.

The National Education Association's just-retired General Counsel Bob Chanin:

“Despite what some among us would like to believe, it is not because of our creative ideas.
It is not because of the merit of our positions.
It is not because we care about children.
And it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child.

NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power.
And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year because they believe that we are the unions that can most effectively represent them, the unions that can protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees.”

As legendary New York teachers union leader Albert Shanker said:

“When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.”

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