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Teacher walkout: As conservative reforms gain momentum, teachers unions losing money and members
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| 8/24/12
| Daniel James Devine
Posted on 09/03/2012 3:27:21 PM PDT by rhema
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Kristi Lacroix
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:27:24 PM PDT
by
rhema
To: rhema
We need to do what Reagan did to the ATC staffers: FIRE THEM ALL, and re-hire NON-UNION COMPETENT replacements.
GET THE F$#@ing Unions out of the Public Sector, and cut the head off the DNC-money-laundering snake!
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:34:03 PM PDT
by
traditional1
(Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
To: rhema
There is a growing revolt within multiple unions.
Commentary: Labor Bosses' Vision of Collective Bargaining Hurts Workers, Society Union plans will force Michigan to have to hang 'Closed for Business' signs
As a pro-union UAW member who happens to be a realist, I have a different view of collective bargaining than most union officials.
The idea that you can equally serve the needs of large numbers of employees by negotiating terms of employment en masse ignores basic rights and crushes a person's individualistic spirit. Union officials want to categorize workers as drone bees in a hive, but we each have differing abilities and strengths, hopes and dreams, and wants and needs that collective bargaining cannot hope to address.
Collective bargaining steals away distinctiveness and strips workers of basic human dignity because it essentially tells workers that they are no better or worse than anyone else.
In other words, it is Marxist in nature, which is anti-American.
Tery Bowman is head of http://www.unionconservatives.com/ was a big Michigan supporter of Scott Walker, supports right to work laws in Michigan, and has testified against union political fundraising on capitol hill.
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:37:04 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: rhema
God bless this teacher and those like her. I suspect it’s many, many more than we realize.
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:38:05 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(June 28, 2012 -- 9/11 From Within)
To: traditional1
Wow. Those union people in WI are pure evil. I would never want them teaching my children. Fire them all and replace them. Keep only the decent conservatives that speak up and tell the unions to just go to heck.
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:43:07 PM PDT
by
Qwackertoo
(Romney/Ryan 2012 The Future of Our Children and Their Children are at stake.)
To: rhema
Is there any way we can support her and people like her?
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:44:16 PM PDT
by
TwelveOfTwenty
(Ho, ho, hey, hey, I'm BUYcotting Chick-Fil-A)
To: Qwackertoo
"Keep only the decent conservatives that speak up and tell the unions to just go to heck"Notwithstanding the un-necessary existence of ANY Union, I believe PUBLIC EMPLOYEES serve at the expense of the Taxpayer, who in turn is the one who should decide REASONABLE Compensation and Benefits.....NOT strong-arm, striking against Taxpayers and BUYING favor from Dues to Democrat Politicians.
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:48:48 PM PDT
by
traditional1
(Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
To: traditional1
I agree. Whoever thought public unions was a good idea should be, well I probably shouldn’t say. Very bad idea.
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:51:40 PM PDT
by
Qwackertoo
(Romney/Ryan 2012 The Future of Our Children and Their Children are at stake.)
To: TwelveOfTwenty
Is there any way we can support her and people like her?Do business with businesses in Wisconsin.
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:52:02 PM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: rhema
23 yrs in Education, longtime activist
He is also a member of the US Department of Educations Equity
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:52:32 PM PDT
by
kcvl
To: rhema
let's see now....each union member pays $100 per month in union dues......doesn't anyone except me see an extreme amount of money being paid, unwillingly in many cases, to a private organization that basically does nothing all year long. Where on earth do all those extorted dollars go????
No real need to answer, I was a member of the joint council in the union I was forced to belong to as a correctional officer for the state of Indiana.
When I asked the same question at a union meeting I became VERY unpopular!!!!!
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:53:01 PM PDT
by
terycarl
To: rhema
I am not a teacher,but a member(not by choice)of a very ,very strong politically active union in Calif.
I have become sick of the way my dues goes to support their political agenda.There are many of us who share the same values and are opposed to what the union represents.
Yes on Ca.Prop 32.
Kristi Lacroix,God bless You.
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:55:16 PM PDT
by
peteyd
(A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
To: terycarl
I used to agitate my union steward by calling dues our “Union tax”.
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:55:48 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Qwackertoo
In my 45 year career, I was a Union member for less than a year, when I first hired. IMMEDIATELY, I saw what Seniority meant and advancement was "wait your turn", and NEVER based on Merit.
I moved to Management and never looked back. The WORST offenders seem to be the least-productive and least-skilled workers, who NEED the Union to keep them employed. They can't move up on Merit; they have none. THAT is so pervasive in the Public Sector, even more than the Private Sector, because of Nepotism, Political Appointments, Patronage, etc., and once hired, they are virtually IMPOSSIBLE TO FIRE for anything other than a "Convicted" Felony (that's the beauty of Plea Bargains, and saves their jobs).
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posted on
09/03/2012 3:55:55 PM PDT
by
traditional1
(Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
To: terycarl
and remember all the awful health benefit contracts they had? When the school districts could go out and competitively bid them they were saving 50%. One day Rush had a guy from WI and don’t remember his name but all the sneaky tricks and they had the school districts and cities hostage to certain providers. That has since changed. For the better.
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posted on
09/03/2012 4:03:53 PM PDT
by
Qwackertoo
(Romney/Ryan 2012 The Future of Our Children and Their Children are at stake.)
To: rhema
Another,
The lady's got guts.
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posted on
09/03/2012 4:20:19 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
To: rhema
Income from dues at the Arizona Education Association, for instance, dropped from $7.5 million to $5.4 million in one year.Huh, the solution to that is so simple I'm surprised they even mentioned money.
They already have the answer, now they just need to do what they have always told us need to be done.
Raise taxes, or in this case dues.
Problem solved.
They can send me my advisors fee by mail.
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posted on
09/03/2012 4:23:53 PM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
To: traditional1
The problem with firing teachers is that they are already the bottom of the academic barrel. Short of hiring still more Democrats, who are you going to replace them with?
Why do you think the NEA is so adamantly opposed to testing teachers on a regular basis, or worse, actually testing the results of their work, the knowledge of those seriously brainwashed little Socialists in the schools? How about ranking them in ability, and rather than seniority?
If you have been back to any cow college, you will have found that Education Majors are the absolute bottom of the IQ Bell Curve. Even Journalism Majors are brighter.
The classes are such things as to how to teach camping, fishing, ballroom dancing, because these losers are in school to delay, for as long as possible, actually having to work for a living. Only the philosophy majors dragging out a student loan for a tenured professorship are more useless.
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posted on
09/03/2012 4:29:58 PM PDT
by
jonascord
(Any Democrat = Classic examples of the Downing Effect.)
To: traditional1
The problem with firing teachers is that they are already the bottom of the academic barrel. Short of hiring still more Democrats, who are you going to replace them with?
Why do you think the NEA is so adamantly opposed to testing teachers on a regular basis, or worse, actually testing the results of their work, the knowledge of those seriously brainwashed little Socialists in the schools? How about ranking them in ability, and rather than seniority?
If you have been back to any cow college, you will have found that Education Majors are the absolute bottom of the IQ Bell Curve. Even Journalism Majors are brighter.
The classes are such things as to how to teach camping, fishing, ballroom dancing, because these losers are in school to delay, for as long as possible, actually having to work for a living. Only the philosophy majors dragging out a student loan for a tenured professorship are more useless.
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posted on
09/03/2012 4:30:19 PM PDT
by
jonascord
(Any Democrat = Classic examples of the Downing Effect.)
To: jonascord
Hillsdale college has quit offering teaching degrees without a 4 year degree in something else. You can still get a teaching degree while working on your 4 year degree but they have a deal with Spring Arbor college about 25 miles to the north for it.
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posted on
09/03/2012 4:46:05 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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