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it's coming to a State near you...Connecticut announced it will ask the unions to take a cut in pension benefits because...wait for it..."they just can't afford it"...get ready for the rioting in the streets just like Europe..Francis Fox Piven..your dream is about to come true...
Consider the wealth concentrated along the coast of Fairfield county, Connecticut could afford to double teacher's salaries and pensions without the cost being noticed in that place. Fairfield County is orders of magnitude richer than most anywhere else on the planet. The is plenty of money to go around but it is being tied up by the few at the cost to the many.
“the politicians that manage and fund it and use it for political purposes.†Don’t you believe unions operate the same way? The politicians are only doing what the unions are paying for, government legislation to fatten union pockets. Unions drain company revenues and don’t care about the parent CO only the union pockets, unions are true leaches that pay off politicians while killing their host.
Tell me, anyone, where is a union helpful (and please say you don’t care, it will solidify my point) to the parent company? How can forcing pay increases (by strikes or legislation) be helpful to the success of the parent company? You would think that increasing profits for the parent CO would insure increases for the employees but unions don’t work like that, they don’t care, they are the very thing they were designed to fight, a big fat greedy corporation that is heartless and cares for nothing but money!
Fools are those who are union. Strike now while unemployment is this high, please strike! We can get America moving again with the extra weight of dead beat unions off the backs progress.
What a meteroric and complete faiure to grasp the point. It is not teachers we are going to do without, but the Unions. Figure it out, please.
You are correct, you are missing the point. Teachers are woefully underpaid now, removing their ability to bargain with politicians, would result in even greater problems. Good educators would move out of the business, making room for more, poor teachers. But, I can see why the Repubs are all for that, education is the enemy of the GOP. An educated population is too demanding of political integrity.
Teachers are woefully underpaid now, removing their ability to bargain with politicians, would result in even greater problems. Good educators would move out of the business, making room for more, poor teachers.
Funny.....The largest K-12 school in Pennsylvania is now the PA Cyber Charter School.
They have no school board and answer to no politicians.
They pay better than all public schools and attract the best teachers.
They have better benefits than public school teachers.
Union membership is dropping rapidly. The last time such large drops occured, was th 1920s'. Just prior to the Republican greed directed Depression. We barely missed another occurrence of a Depression, thanks to Obama, but we still have the union assault going on. The union uprising seems to be growing, and we will likely see a resurgence of union membership again, just like after the Great Depression.
Funny.....The largest K-12 school in Pennsylvania is now the PA Cyber Charter School.
They have no school board and answer to no politicians.
They pay better than all public schools and attract the best teachers.
They have better benefits than public school teachers.
They are also NON-UNION.
It's good to see you agree with the President on Charter Schools.
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