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Originally Posted by Pete
I disagree on a minor point. And I'll use Greece and Wisconsin as examples.
There has been an explosion in government worker unions - yes folks teacher's unions are government worker unions also.
They don't strike per say but they are organized and can muster large number of folks in a short time.
They can flood local board meetings and state capitals in the blink of an eye.
NC is going through the budget nutroll and once again the school systems threaten to fire teachers - but not the three guys leaning on a truck watching the fourth cut the grass. Look for the teachers to fire things up.
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QP Pete--
I think you're making a good point about teachers.
We're seeing the same thing in Los Angeles as the LAUSD has been talking about layoffs for a while now. They'll have to balance carefully their self interests with their rhetoric that their primary focus is the students. If they strike in large numbers, they'll jeopardize their credibility.
The teachers' union seems not to have any qualms about exploiting their students, who attend these events with their parents, in front of the news cameras. Yet they hollered like the damned when the
Los Angeles Times put their ratings on line <<
LINK>>. (Am I the only one who is increasingly bent out of shape by how frequently news outlets and bloggers turn to the cliched grading system for this that and the other?)