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We always knew that Campbell Brown’s anti-union, anti-teacher news site (The 74) would find a way to blame the growing wave of teachers’ strikes on those”evil unions.”
Peter Greene finds the quintessential non sequitur article on The 74, written by a choice zealot.
Teachers are walking out in “right to work” states, it seems, because they are robots who do what their unions order them to do. Teachers never think for themselves.
Lest we forget, the 74 is funded in part by Betsy DeVos.
Critical thinking is not the selling point of The 74. Propaganda is.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
It is my understanding that unions have not been leading these strikes. It is the teachers that have organized and decided that walking out was their only way to be heard. Unions have supported their membership in deciding to strike as well they should. It is a lie to blame the unions, but, as Greene notes, it supports the privatization agenda to blame them. Anger should be directed to legislators and governors that have starved public education to make it collapse, not unions or teachers that have been backed into a corner.
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As I understand it, all these red-state walkouts are wildcat strikes, which means not endorsed by union leadership– because in these states, public-employee strikes are illegal, & unions supporting these workers would lose whatever legitimacy they have to operate there. Presumably, striking teachers are risking their jobs– but they have some safety in numbers, because here aren’t a bunch of folks lined up behind them to take their jobs [I gather there are teacher shortages in these states– for good reason.]
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This garbage is just sooooo 2010, the high water mark for teacher bashing, a year which culminated in WAITING FOR SUPERMAN, the most despicable and dishonest propaganda documentary ever made outside of Nazi Germany. (Tulane professor Lance Hill called it the most despicable documentary since TRIUMPH OF THE WILL.)
To dip your head in this cinematic septic tank, watch the following clip from WFS:
( 36:42 – 37:40 )
https://vimeo.com/115805401
( 36:42 – 37:40 )
As his “evidence” of how bad public school teachers truly are, director Davis Guggenheim pulls from:
1) A TV cartoon — SIMPSONS episode
2) A comedy feature film — SCHOOL OF ROCK
In the latter, WFS, of course leaves out that Jack Black’s character of the lousy, lazy teachers was actually — in the story, that is — an imposter posing as a teacher to pocket his salary.
Got that? Even in this fictional world, THE LEMON TEACHER WASN’T AN ACTUAL TEACHER(!!!) For the purposes of the documentary, however, this out-of-context clip allowed him to represent the mass or majority of teachers in U.S. public schools.
Interspersed with this “evidence” is $700,000-a-year poverty pimp Geoffrey Canada making the bogus claims that teachers get tenure just for “breathing”, and that it’s impossible to fire them.
(The film portrayed this guy Canada as an inner-city equivalent of Mother Teresa or Albert Schweitzer, but left out his 3/4’s of million annual salary, and the fact that he once expelled an entire grade for getting bad test scores. Teacher/activist Brian Jones was on a panel with Canada, and blasted him for that. He told Canada to his fact that, even if Jones had Canada’s power, he never could or indeed would do such a thing. Shame on you!)
Canada claims that a public school teacher’s ability to teach or “help children is totally irrelevant” to their being hired or retained to teach.
WTF is he talking about? I guess all that grueling vetting I — and other teachers go through to be hired — that was was all for show, as are the in-depth evaluations teacher undergo, and all those regular walk-throughs by administrators.
Watch WFS.
There is nothing or no one challenging this bullsh–. Ravitch’s first book THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AN AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM had come out a year before the film came out, so finding interviews that would provide balance to the film’s thesis would have been easy.
But this was never about balance. It was corporate propaganda, with Davis pulling down a multi-million-dollar salary as he acted the role of “The once-pro-union progressive who now sees the light.”
Remember how Duncan and Obama praised this. (That idiot Duncan claimed WFS was a pivotal moment in U.S. history, on a par with Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat. Can you believe that???!!!)
At one point, Guggenheim shows a clip of AFT’s Randi Weingarten screaming like Hitler to a crowd of teachers while talking over it … to make the point … teachers union leaders are evil.
As with the entire film, the above segment is downright evil. It’s what the Nazi’s did in their propaganda against Jews. It’s what KKK and Aryan Nation propaganda does to blacks.
WAITING FOR SUPERMAN came out in FALL 2010, just before Scott Walker’s first election. Walker-ites played this non-stop to turn Wisconsin’s citizens against their public school teachers. So many others, including Chris Christie, would play this before giving speeches, to again, scapegoat and demonize public school teachers.
Thankfully, this garbage — which worked so well 8 years ago, ain’t working so well now. Tillie Elvrum comes off as an unhinged loon.
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I hate to break it to the bloggers on this site . Teachers are walking out because of those unions . It is the inherent function of their unions to represent the interests of those teachers , which are not at odds with the students and the communities they work in.
Being involved in a rather large grass roots union movement my self, that put upwards of 10,000 in the heart of Time Square 2 weeks ago . I will say that grass roots movements can do things that unions are constrained from doing . The movements are not directed by those Unions as they can not be by law.
The question becomes why are we faced in this Nation with a regulatory system that constrains the rights of workers to act collectively .Are not the free speech rights of union leaders being infringed when they can not tell their fellow union members to go on strike. As is the case with many Public Unions . . Are the free speech rights of Union members and Union leaders not being infringed, when they can not urge members to honor the picket lines of Employers they have no contractual relationship with . Or urge members to deny services to the end users who hire companies involved in labor disputes . Harry Truman seemed to think so . When he vetoed Taft Hartley .
The way around this is wildcats and grass roots movements . But who do employers negotiate with when they settle the dispute. It would seem that would be the representatives from the Unions. So it is a bit of a cat and mouse game.
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If walking out is a form of free speech, why can states impose harsh penalties for doing so? New York public employees lose two days pay for every one on strike under the Taylor Law. Texas teachers run the risk of losing their pensions. These severe penalties give the states an unfair advantage in arriving at a fair settlement.
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The laws governing strikes and walk-outs and work stoppages by public employees, vary from state to state. In some states, like Washington state, public employee strikes are illegal.
States do NOT have an unfair advantage. When a person undertakes public employment, they agree to the laws and stipulations presented in public employment.
see
https://education.findlaw.com/teachers-rights/teacher-s-unions-collective-bargaining-state-and-local-laws.html
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When every teacher walks out, the laws are moot. The public supports the teachers.
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Just because a law exists does not make it just or right. Blind obedience sent up to 20 million civilians to their deaths at the hands of the Nazi’s that ruled Germany before and during World War II. In the U.S. when laws are unjust, the 1st Amendment allows people to speak out, to protest.
http://www.businessinsider.com/shocking-new-holocaust-study-claims-nazis-killed-up-to-20-million-people-2013-3
Ten Things Your Boss Doesn’t Want You To Know
https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2013/02/05/ten-things-your-boss-doesnt-want-you-to-know/#746ea24e51fb
If walking out in mass from your public or private sector job, then that’s the risk, but that is not the end of it. The employees who walked out together can always go to court and fight back through the courts to seek justice.
If Congress passed legislation that allowed us to shoot anyone that angered us for whatever reason, would you go around shooting people?
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Colorado is looking at a bill that would fine a teacher $500, and up to six months in jail, for every day a teacher walks out. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/23/17270422/colorado-teachers-strike-jail-bill
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Threatened Out West: does Colorado have a backlog of teacher applicants for those who would leave under such circumstances? I read a 2017 Denver Post article that said salaries were down 7.7% since 2007, & at that point they were short 3k teachers; sci to & math slots go unfilled esp in rural districts for yrs; ed-school grads were down 25% since 2012 & had remained flat since then. The article you link says CO teachers are among lowest-pd in nation, & passage of that bill is slim… but it ays something about CO legislature that a couple of Reps are nevertheless floating it…
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Q When every teacher walks out, the laws are moot. The public supports the teachers. END Q
I disagree. The law is the law, regardless of walkouts. In 1981, Reagan fired the PATCO union members,(air traffic controllers) who illegally struck. Airline travel was disrupted, I got stuck in Atlanta for some hours, during that illegal strike.
I wish that the public did support the teachers, enough so that a strike would not have be considered. If the public demanded that the state provide adequate salaries/benefits for the teachers, and also demanded that the “public” would be taxed at a rate, adequate to provide the salaries/benefits, then strikes would disappear.
The public does not always support striking teachers, whether the strike is legal or illegal. In 1968, there was a strike in Kentucky, and public school teachers walked off the job for three(3) days. The state secured a court order, and the teachers returned to work.
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Right, Charles, all teachers will be fired in Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, and so on.
Haha.
What the legislators will discover is that the teachers are well loved, and they are not.
Remember the story about King Canute ordering the tide not to roll in?
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That means Charles would have sided with and supported King George and the British Empire when some of the colonies in North America rebelled (Canada was a colony too and it did not rebel).
After all, it was against the law for the Founding Fathers and the colonists that joined them to rebel to do what they did.
If they had failed when they defied their king and his government’s laws, they would have lost everything, even their lives. The King would have hung them for breaking the laws of the British Empire and taken all their properties and wealth.
People that agree with your thinking were called loyalists back then making you a person who remains loyal to the established ruler or government, especially in the face of a revolt.
If you had been a citizen of Germany in 1933, that means you would have also been loyal to Hitler and supported the Nazi’s policies since they were the lawmakers.
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Charles is a Tory.
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Q all teachers will be fired in Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, and so on END Q
On what do you base this assertion? Laws vary from state to state. I cited the 1981 PATCO strike, just as an example. I wish teachers did not have to strike, and that our nation’s teachers were paid an adequate salary/benefits package.
When their backs are up against the wall, they strike. Sad but true.
As strikes spread, we can be certain that some state legislatures will be passing laws intended to discourage and/or criminalize strikes against the public. You can bet the ranch on that.
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There is an old Yiddish expression, phonetically expressed here: Gournish helfen.
The legislatures can pass all the laws they want, but they can’t stop all the teachers from walking out when they are paid like peons and their classrooms lack basic supplies. They can fire them all and close the schools. Fat chance.
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Q That means Charles would have sided with and supported King George and the British Empire when some of the colonies in North America rebelled (Canada was a colony too and it did not rebel).
After all, it was against the law for the Founding Fathers and the colonists that joined them to rebel to do what they did.
If they had failed when they defied their king and his government’s laws, they would have lost everything, even their lives. The King would have hung them for breaking the laws of the British Empire and taken all their properties and wealth.
People that agree with your thinking were called loyalists back then making you a person who remains loyal to the established ruler or government, especially in the face of a revolt.
If you had been a citizen of Germany in 1933, that means you would have also been loyal to Hitler and supported the Nazi’s policies since they were the lawmakers.
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You are pursuing a “non sequitir”. Your conclusions “do not follow”. I did not live in 1776, and you have no way of knowing what I would or would not have done. If I were pissed off enough, I might have enlisted with General Washington. I do not know, and you certainly don’t.
And you are insulting me, by your ludicrous assumption, that I would have supported the Nazis in 1933. I am a Freemason, and the Freemasons opposed Hitler. In the elections which the Nazis were chosen, the party never got much more than ~30% of the vote. I might have chosen to oppose the Nazis, or emigrated out of the country. I do not know, and you certainly do not.
The point that I am trying to make, is that I support the demands of the teachers, whose backs are up against the wall. If they cannot obtain redress for their legitimate grievances, they are compelled to strike. The entire public school system of Arizona, is probably going to see a strike within 24 hours.
The principal point that I am trying to make, is that when you take the law into your own hands, you must deal with the law the way it is. The laws respecting strikes by public employees vary wildly across this land. Some striking teachers in some states, may strike, and then go right back to work. Some may face penalties. It depends on each individual circumstance.
In 1981, Reagan fired all of the striking air-traffic controllers. Federal law bequeathed this power to the President. This does not mean, that governors in the various states, are going to fire striking teachers.
One thing, you can be sure of: State legislatures are starting to take notice. Some legislatures are certain to review and/or pass new legislation dealing with work stoppages by public employees.
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“You are pursuing a ‘non sequitir’. Your conclusions “do not follow”. I did not live in 1776, and you have no way of knowing what I would or would not have done. If I were pissed off enough, I might have enlisted with General Washington. I do not know, and you certainly don’t.”
The evidence is your comments here in support of laws … just or unjust. Your comments now at this time indicate strongly that you would have been a loyalist to the crown back then if you were the same person you are at this time.
Blind obedience is what I read in your comments. If it is a law, you think others have no right to break those laws even if those laws are wrong and take away rights the people should have. No one should be forced to work in a job that abuses them and underpays them.
In fact, I think every teacher in this country, especially in red states, should quit and go find work somewhere else where they are not mistreated and abused.
It is thinking like yours that has caused the US to have the largest prison population in the world even larger than Communist China, a country with more than four times the population.
It is thinking like yours that vile, sex-crazed, serial lying frauds like Donald Trump love because then he has a base of support when he manages to get laws that he wants like throwing reporters in jail when they write “fake news” and Trump wants laws that make him the judge to decide what “fake news” is.
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Q The evidence is your comments here in support of laws … just or unjust. Your comments now at this time indicate strongly that you would have been a loyalist to the crown back then if you were the same person you are at this time.
Blind obedience is what I read in your comments. If it is a law, you think others have no right to break those laws even if those laws are wrong and take away rights the people should have. No one should be forced to work in a job that abuses them and underpays them.
In fact, I think every teacher in this country, especially in red states, should quit and go find work somewhere else where they are not mistreated and abused.
It is thinking like yours that has caused the US to have the largest prison population in the world even larger than Communist China, a country with more than four times the population.END Q
It is pointless to argue about what I would have or not have done in 1776. I do not practice “blind obedience”. I am just a law-abiding citizen. I have stated, that when a person takes the law into their own hands, they must deal with the law the way that it is.
If a person chooses to break the law, they must deal with the consequences, regardless of the “just or unjust” status of the particular law.
Of course people have the “right” to break laws that they disagree with. Our prisons are filled with people who have done so. People sometimes surrender their rights, when they accept employment. I once took a job in computer operations. I was forbidden to publish a journal of my personal off-duty experiences. I was once a federal employee. I had to swear an oath that I would not participate in a strike.
No one is forced to work in a job that “abuses” them. People are free to resign. (“Take this job and shove it”).
If schoolteachers are so miserable, then I must agree with you. Let them resign and find more satisfactory employment.
What does my thinking have to do with the prison population? I believe in the rule of law.
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Charles, blindly, believes in the rule of law.
Here is a factual example that explains why it is wrong to support a law just because it is a law.
President Nixon declared war on drugs (similar to America’s war on alcohol during the depression) and that led to millions of law-abiding citizens (meaning they never killed anyone, robbed a bank, or committed any other crime that hurt anyone — all they did is smoke a joint or take a pill that gave them a high similar to what alcohol does) that ended up up in prison for smoking marijuana.
Before Nixon’s war on drugs, the prison population in the US was steady for decades. If you click the link, you will learn that the prison population didn’t change much from 1880 to 1970 and then it went crazy because of the war on Drugs that Nixon started and Reagan doubled down on turning the United States into a police state with the largest prison population in the world.
Is there any law that Charles does not support? Just because it is a law doesn’t make it a fair law.
The U.S., the so-called land of the free (that I call BS because it is not the land of the free), has 737 people locked up per 100,000 population while China, ranked #2, has 118 people locked up per 100,000 people, and many Americans complain about China having an authoritarian one-party system.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2page1.stm
The United States has too many unjust laws with harsh penalties and those laws and the prison population makes the US a police state.
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To blame recent strikes in “right to work” states on unions is just par for the Campbell’s Spit Pee soup course.
Logic is not Campbell Brown’s strong point.
To pull your blog site down,
Just hire Campbell Brown
She’ll anchor like a weight
And seal your sorry fate
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Any attack from the autocratic corporate reformers (of everything publicly funded that is in the public sector) against a labor union is an attack on democracy itself since all labor unions are democratic organizations where the members vote for their leaders at the local, state, and federal levels.
Winston Churchill said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
The automatic corporate reformers are part of “all the others.”
When Teddy Roosevelt was President of the U.S. and the existence of those democratically led labor unions was at risk, he sided with the unions and helped save them from the autocrats that wanted to crush any voice labor had. Teddy even broke the huge monopolies of his time so the super wealthy autocrats wouldn’t have as much power over the rest of us. Donald Trump is a perfect example of how an autocrat thinks.
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I believe a staunch supporter of education in Missouri, representative Bob Burns, is being set up by the post dispatch and claire mccaskill…among others. Calls for him to resign—for his sin of calling in to a really raunchy radio station with a nasty host….to lobby for veterans and firefighters. Spliced tape……I am going to contact Jeff Bryant and ask him to fact check it for me……he developed st. louis contacts last summer. Bob is in the Affton school district hall of fame for his school board service, and is running for his fourth and last term in the pathetic mo legislature, having trouble figuring out what to do with the……………..uhh…………governor. I hope Bob does not restrain his language when he responds to them…..especially mc caskill.
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Something corporate is going on….and I do not think there are any ads running about it…..this is a sample of the reaction Bob is getting on his representative facebook page….
Megan Baumgartner shared a live video.
Yesterday at 4:42pm ·
I am so proud of Bob for releasing this, but I am also appalled by how people are bashing this beautiful, selfless, genuine, caring soul. I’ve known Bob Burns & Dianne Burns since before I was born, we are looking at almost 27 years of them being my ‘adopted grandparents’. The entire time I’ve been on this earth Bobbo has NEVER been, thought, or shown any type of “hate or racism”. He has always put others before himself no matter the situation and truly cares for the good of humanity.
When I was younger he would voluntarily come to all of my softball, volleyball, soccer and basketball games to support me which he did not have to do but he did. Not only did he take the time out of his own personal day to do this, but he would also treat me and my teammates to snow cones, candy, or nachos afterwards out of the kindness of his heart. Without him even saying anything, I could tell by his reaction that he truly enjoyed how happy it made us no matter the outcome of the game. He also voluntarily came to all of my graduations, birthdays, and big happenings in my life (still does to this day) to show his support and willingness to be there for my family. After being around him as long as I have, I know who Bob Burns is. I know exactly what his beliefs are and that he is the absolutely furthest thing from that the media is portraying him to be. In fact, anyone who knows Bob or has crossed paths with him knows he is a saint & would do anything for anyone. He does not deserve what people have been saying about him.
I normally don’t read or watch the media or comment much on what the news or people have to say but when I got wind of what they were accusing this man of, it made my stomach turn over & honestly brought tears to my eyes. I thought to myself many times why even post or comment on any of this? And my answer to this is: Because out of everyone in my life I have met these two individuals (Dianne & Bob Burns) they are the most incredible individuals I’ve met. They mean to world to me & deserve to be defended. They are good people and we do not have enough people in this world like them.
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Yesterday at 2:31pm ·
Representative Bob Burns is holding a press conference after multiple calls for him to step down. Background: http://bit.ly/2KbtBCK
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America’s churches strongly support unions: Just read the following strong moral pro-union stances taken by our nation’s mainstream churches and you will then know with certainty that you are morally right to support the expansion of unions and to oppose deceptively-labeled “right to work” laws that in truth are “Prepare to be fired at any time for any or no reason” laws:
CATHOLIC CHURCH — UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS, Pastoral Letter “Economic Justice for All,” 1986: “The [Catholic] Church fully supports the right of workers to form unions or other associations to secure their rights to fair wages and working conditions. This is a specific application of the more general right to associate [this makes unionizing a constitutional right under the First Amendment right of freedom to form associations]. No one may deny the right to organize without attacking human dignity itself. Therefore, we firmly oppose organized efforts — such as those regrettably seen in this country — to break existing unions or prevent workers from organizing.”
POPE BENEDICT XVI, “Caritas in Veritate,” 2009: “Governments, for reasons of economic utility, often limit the freedom or the negotiating capacity of labor unions. The repeated calls issued within the Church’s social doctrine, beginning with Rerum Novarum, for the promotion of workers’ associations that can defend their rights must therefore be honored today even more than in the past.”
AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES in the U.S.A. Resolution, 1981: “We reaffirm our position that workers have the right to organize by a free and democratic vote of the workers involved.”
CENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RABBIS, Preamble to the Workplace Fairness Resolution, adopted at the 104th Annual Convention, June 1993: “Jewish leaders, along with our Catholic and Protestant counterparts, have always supported the labor movement and the rights of employees to form unions for the purpose of engaging in collective bargaining and attaining fairness in the workplace. We believe that the permanent replacement of striking workers upsets the balance of power needed for collective bargaining, destroys the dignity of working people and undermines the democratic values of this nation.”
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST, Resolution on the Church and Labor, 1938: “We believe in the right of laboring men to organize for protection against unjust conditions and to secure a more adequate share of the fruits of the toil.”
CHRISTIAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Discipline doctrine, adopted 1982: “Free collective bargaining has proved its value in our free society whenever the parties engaged in collective bargaining have acted in good faith to reach equitable and moral solutions of problems dealing with wages and working conditions.”
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA, Resolution adopted at Churchwide Assembly, 1991: “The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America commits itself to advocacy with corporations, businesses, congregations and church-related institutions to protect the rights of workers, support the collective bargaining process, and protect the right to strike.”
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH U.S.A, “Principles of Vocation and Work,” adopted at General Assembly, 1995: “Justice demands that social institutions guarantee all persons the opportunity to participate actively in economic decision making that affects them. All workers — including undocumented, migrant and farm workers — have the right to choose to organize for the purposes of collective bargaining.”
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION OF CONGREGATIONS, adopted at General Assembly, 1997: “The Unitarian Universalist Association urges its member congregations and individual Unitarian Universalists in the United States… to work specifically in favor of mechanisms such as: reform of labor legislation and employment standards to provide greater protection for workers, including the right to organize and bargain collectively, protection from unsafe working conditions and protections from unjust dismissal.”
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, “Resolution Affirming Democratic Principles in an Emerging Global Economy,” adopted at 21st General Synod, 1997: “The 21st General Synod reaffirms the heritage of the United Church of Christ as an advocate for democratic, participatory and inclusive economic policies in both public and private sectors, including … the responsibility of workers to organize unions for collective bargaining with employers regarding wages, benefits and working conditions, and to participate in efforts further to democratize, reform and expand the labor movement domestically and abroad.”
We the People have so much to thank unions for — and it’s a shame that so relatively few know the story of how selfless union workers even gave their lives to put into practice our First Amendment right to freely associate in labor unions and in doing so created The Great American Middle Class. Unionized workers gained equitable and fair incomes not only for themselves but also for non-unionized workers whose companies raised wages and provided benefits comparable to unionized companies in order to retain good employees and to avoid being unionized. Those good wages not only created The Great American Middle Class but also created our consumer-based economy. To bring back the financial health and strength of the Middle Class that our economy needs to grow, we must bring back union strength and membership.
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I wonder who these outlets are for. Who do they think reads them?
They’re written by ed reformers, for ed reformers. A closed circle.
Ask 1000 public school parents if any of them has any idea what “The 74” is – ask them if they know who Campbell Brown is.
Funded by ed reform, print only ed reform-approved “news”, and written AND read exclusively by the same 150 ed reformers.
I could mock up a 74 front page myself- it’s a formula. Three anti-union screeds, one “scandal” at a public school, and five glowing reviews of miracle charters. Oh, and I almost forgot- one advertisement for one or another ed tech product disguised as a “study”. Put one of those up every day and make a million dollars a year.
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Why didn’t the thousands of paid ed reform advocates do any advocacy for public school students in West Virginia, Arizona and Oklahoma when those states were gutting public school funding?
They’re supposedly pro-public education. Public school students don’t count?
One of two things is true- they either didn’t care what was happening to schools in these states or they are really lousy advocates.
It’s odd that we seem to have more and more adults in the full time ed reform business and yet public school students get the shaft every time.
These students need better adult advocates. They’re not being well served.
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No one in ed reform noticed that 30 states had cut funding to public schools since 2010?
Full time “public education advocates” somehow missed this rather important fact?
30 states! They had to really TRY to ignore public schools to miss that.
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‘The 74’ seems to be talking to an almost-empty house these days. All depends on how many parents of K12 kids you’ve got in your state. Cuz parents of school-age kids are finally getting the drift they’re being shafted by the combo of tax-cuts for corporations plus slashing of pubsch funding… Maybe they’ll get by in retiree havens like FL for a while longer… but even snowbird-havens like AZ & CO are turning on to wildcat teacher strikes! Could it be that taxpayers are beginning to ponder… what new-biz enterprise wants to relocate to a state whose pubschs are so underfunded, they’d have to pay employees enough to support megabucks tuition at reputable privschs?
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