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Tenn. panel votes to bust state teachers' unions
washington examiner ^ | 2/17/11 | David Freddoso

Posted on 02/17/2011 12:48:08 PM PST by Nachum

We're seeing more and more of this:

NASHVILLE — The Senate Education Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to abolish collective bargaining between teachers unions and school boards across the state.The vote was 6-3, with all Republicans on the panel voting for the bill and all Democrats against.Sponsor Sen. Jack Johnson said passage of the bill — SB113 — will remove "an albatross from around the neck of our school boards across the state" and remove a roadblock to education reform.

Labor unions are part of the free market. But their historical rationale is to protect workers from exploitation by unscrupulous employers that don't follow the law or eschew basic workplace safety standards.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/02/tenn-panel-votes-bust-state-teachers-unions?utm_source=Tweed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz1EFcpra2D

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: bust; bustunions; panel; tenn; unioncorruption; unions; vote
No more federal freddie the free loaders...
1 posted on 02/17/2011 12:48:17 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Does the TN Army National Guard need to report to their armories?


2 posted on 02/17/2011 12:50:56 PM PST by Lysandru
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To: Nachum

Protests and riots starting in 10... 9... 8... 7... 6...


3 posted on 02/17/2011 12:53:46 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
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To: Nachum
Uh, oh. I sense a sick-out coming to TN soon. /s

That "one day virus" might have spread all the way from Wisconsin, dontcha know!

4 posted on 02/17/2011 12:56:08 PM PST by mellow velo
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To: Nachum

Labor unions are part of the free market?

Exactly which “free market” would that be?

The one in states that have NO Right To Work Laws?....................


5 posted on 02/17/2011 12:56:30 PM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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To: mellow velo
Uh, oh. I sense a sick-out coming to TN soon. /s

That's okay. Tenn-Care will pay for it.............

6 posted on 02/17/2011 12:57:31 PM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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To: Nachum

Woo Hoo this might take off across the nation and it’s about time.


7 posted on 02/17/2011 1:00:04 PM PST by FromLori (FromLori">)
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To: Nachum
NATION WIDE; Toss tenure and evaluate teachers on student success and raise the educational bar. Also, let teachers perform structured physical discipline on unruly students without fear of themselves being disciplined or fired. If the parents won't agree to that then let them home school.
Also, why is it the responsibility of the school to feed the students?? I appreciate being compassionate to those less fortunate but public schools are not supposed to be a nanny. Ya think the current nanny state just might leave an “everybody owes me” attitude with the students?
8 posted on 02/17/2011 1:05:59 PM PST by drypowder
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Toss tenure and evaluate teachers on student success . . .

That needs to happen at the university level as well.

9 posted on 02/17/2011 1:09:53 PM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Nachum

YeEEEeeeeeSSSSSS!!!!


10 posted on 02/17/2011 1:12:57 PM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: Lysandru
Does the TN Army National Guard need to report to their armories?

This is Tennessee - we're all armed! Which might be a good reason for the National Guard to be handy. Actually, I don't expect any kind of activity like what's going on in Madison. We're not a very liberal state, except in the big inner cities where freeloading presides.

11 posted on 02/17/2011 1:15:21 PM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: Arrowhead1952
Bring it on!!

Let American's see!!

As the Socialists, Marxist's Commies proclaim...."Let there be openness!!"

12 posted on 02/17/2011 1:18:48 PM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: Mears

bfl


13 posted on 02/17/2011 1:21:50 PM PST by Mears
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To: Nachum

Unions are the Storm Troopers of socialism.


14 posted on 02/17/2011 1:22:33 PM PST by Ben Mugged (Your refusing to accept the facts doesn't change the facts. Matt Dillon)
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To: Nachum

While eliminating the right to collectively bargain is a big win... You have to really watch these school boards because
some couldn’t generate enough wattage to make a 25 watt bulb glow dim, even if you wired all their brains together in a
series.

They will just take the money savings and dole it out to the professional leeches that call themselves “Superintendents”.


15 posted on 02/17/2011 1:33:57 PM PST by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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To: Nachum

More states need to stand up now!


16 posted on 02/17/2011 2:17:00 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (They don't need to do another 911. They have BHO.)
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To: Nachum

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

17 posted on 02/17/2011 2:47:34 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Nachum

Actually, labor unions were never about the free market. When they gathered enough clout, they held businesses hostage to their demands. This worked quite well in an industrial economy where large factories were bound to a locale. Now that so many people are employed in the service sector or in high tech businesses, unions no longer have the ability to shut things down. The only unions left with any clout are the government unions, where progress and productivity are irrelevant.

At the time unions formed, workers were already gaining some power vs employers and conditions for workers were beginning to change for the better. If employers had been all-powerful as they had been in the past, union organizing would not have been able to get off the ground. Unions just took advantage of what was already taking place, and now everyone thinks they were responsible for improvements in pay and working conditions. They have always been an albatross.


18 posted on 02/17/2011 2:50:34 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Nachum

:-)


19 posted on 02/18/2011 7:17:21 AM PST by GailA (2012 rally cry DEMOCRATS and RINOS are BAD for the USA!)
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