Posted on 08/25/2012 10:51:02 AM PDT by rhema
I am not a big fan of teachers’ unions. In most cities, they are the primary obstacle to controlling budgets and improving education. But sometimes they are even worse than that.
Local 59 is the City of Minneapolis’s unit of the Minnesota Federation of Teachers. Minneapolis public school teachers have their work cut out for them: many of the city’s schools are poor. How much the union is to blame for this I don’t know, but it certainly bears some responsibility for the abysmal performance of the city’s public education system. So one might think that Minneapolis public school teachers would focus their efforts on doing their jobs, and trying to educate their often-challenging student population.
But no: like so many other public employee unions, Local 59 can’t resist meddling in politics. This email recently went out to all Minneapolis public school teachers:
From: all-teachers-bounces@list.mpls.k12.mn.us [all-teachers-bounces@list.mpls.k12.mn.us] on behalf of Lynn Nordgren [lnordgren@mft59.org] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 3:11 PM To: All-Teachers@list.mpls.k12.mn.us Subject: Taking on the KOCH brothers by boycotting their products!
BOYCOTT the ANTI-Union, ANTI-Teacher, ANTI-public education KOCH Brothers!
As many of you know, the very rich KOCH brothers (poster children for the 1 %) are a major funder of the effort to take down unions and public education. They fund TEA party candidates and the far, far right agenda. They truly are trying to take over the government.
An email and Facebook campaign to boycott products made by Koch Industries is growing. There is also a new film out entitled: EXPOSED: The Billionaire Koch Brothers Who Are Buying American Democracy. MFT is trying to get a copy of the film as we speak.
What can you do if you wish to stop the Koch brother’s campaign? You can boycott the following paper products:
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” ‘When the kids start paying union dues, they’ll start thinking about the kids!’
One NEA leader actually stated that very line a while back. “
Close. It was Albert Shanker, former American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president. I think what he said was the following: “When the kids start paying union dues, I’ll start to represent their interests too.” Same thing you said, but worded a bit more in labor-speak.
Yep, that was it. Thanks Bob.
Yes, in NYC. That's where I got it.
You’re welcome!
But don’t forget, the teachers union is all about the students (tee hee hee). And I have a bridge in the Florida swamp for sale.
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Heh. Idiots that they are, they forgot that Holiday sells Koch Gasoline. Not to mention all the other refined products :p
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