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Dawn Pegis's avatar

Love you Karilyn. I’m not a lawyer either, but public school teachers are employees of public schools, fundamentally LOCAL school district hires. The fact that unions (allegedly FIR teachers) have become enormously powerful is confounding. For decades most teachers haven’t been supporters of national hierarchy. I remember when this was the case in 1973, when my parents who were public school teachers (SMALL Iowa schools), happened to go to the NEA convention in Portland that year. They really knew next to nothing about national NEA, but happened to be in town the following week for a Barbershop convention. Perhaps in recent years, teachers have to be aware, more so, about the radical agenda, however, as with small churches, people tend to trust those close to them and not be much aware of the distant higher ups. The misrepresentations are enormous.

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James Barfield's avatar

Analyze this you stupid fucking cunt:

Why don’t you try to be a teacher or an auto worker or any other trade that is under paid. They have rights, just as you have the right to shoot off your stupid fucking fat mouth about shit you have idea about. Keep your shit on Fox news and Qanon and all the rest of your incel assholes buddies. Obviously the education system horribly failed you because you turned out to be a champion dumb fuck

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Sober Christian Gentleman's avatar

Leftist logic is purpose-built to achieve an illogical result, unless one intends to deceive. Logic is only in the way of achieving their goals of total power. Deception is the point.

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Karlyn Borysenko's avatar

No. It’s not.

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Sober Christian Gentleman's avatar

Well, I defer to your expertise. Keep up the good work.

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Nugz's avatar

I hope you get snatched.

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Kristy Hopkins's avatar

Unions have outlived their usefulness. Especially when they are negotiating 45 to 60 an hour. That’s a company killer and justifying by saying if the company makes x amount we deserve x amount is enabling unethical behavior. Forced labor, cheap labor in other countries, exploitation of work visas etc. if a company is celebrating because they are moving it to a country where you can throw a handful of change on the ground have kids clamor for it and they have enough for a week of groceries is NOT an admirable thing and shouldn’t be strived for. Lastly when unions were formed it wasn’t to protect government jobs. The result of GDP being so closely tied to government jobs is an inevitable push toward communism socialism collectivism, which we are witnessing. Even people who have a firm grasp of economics cannot precisely explain why the free market works but historically it just works and lifts everyone up in the process.

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Nugz's avatar

I hope to get taken.

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Amkb's avatar

Canadian perspective: I can see a place for some private sector unions. Public sector unions, however, need to be banned. Back in 2014-2015 we lived through a strike involving a public sector union. I had no idea how insane they were. They picketed our private home (redefined the housing co-op we lived in as a long term care facility), selectively targeted individuals for abuse (I was one of them, and I had nothing to do with the strike), with one guy stalking me and my family at a mall as we tried to go to see a movie together. They stalked one of my wheelchair using neighbours a few times, with one guy "following" her to work one morning, walking in front of her the whole time, with his phone set on his back pack to record video of her the entire way. Same guy verbally abused her many times. A group once followed her on the street until she ducked into a 7-11 for safety, then stood in the door and shouted vile things at her. And she wasn't even treated the worst. They also tried to lure children with ice cream, stalked a 6 yr old, and held an illegal block party that was so loud it caused people's service animals to throw up, and triggered the PTSD of several of my neighbours, as well as my husband. One neighbour was hospitalized three times and was finally ordered by his doctor to find somewhere else to stay until the strike ended (it lasted over 250 days). A friend of mine was also hospitalized twice, in the psych ward, and her psychiatrist wanted her to find somewhere else to stay, but she had nowhere else to go. Even after the strike ended, many of my neighbours never fully recovered, needing more medication and painkillers, and more of my neighbours died within the next couple of years than in the almost 10 years we'd been living there before.

The employees that went on strike were health care aids. In the end, the union lost, and all the employees they talked into unionizing and going on strike lost their jobs.

The union did all sorts of things that would have gotten anyone else arrested. I had my phone on my dash, recording incident after incident, sending them to the police. They did nothing. I finally asked our police liaison officers, during one of our meetings, flat out: is there different laws for unions than everyone else? One officer thought about it a moment, then answered, yes. During a strike, unions were allowed things that would normally be illegal.

I later found out that the unions - all public sector unions - were directly funding the NDP - 23 cents from every dollar in membership dues collected. The NDP - both federal and provincial - even sent MPs and MLAs to the picket line to support them. CUPE sent supporters, and the media endlessly lied about the details of the strike.

Things have only gotten worse since then. Especially with our new Prime Dictator.

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Cody Vector's avatar

How are these guys NOT Democrats? The union itself is an extension of the Democrat party.

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Cody Vector's avatar

How are these guys NOT Democrats? The union itself is an extension of the Democrat party.

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Maryanne's avatar

The teachers union in California own Gavin Newsom completely.

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