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Originally posted by PhoenixAzul
To Comment on the Unions...
Unions are the reason my family has food on the table. My father has been a loyal union member for the past 30 some odd years of his life. He never "needed" his union steward until this past summer, when his finger was crushed and amputated at work. The union fought for his medical leave and to keep him employed. As a kid , we never crossed picket lines, switched newspapers so we wouldn't be scabs, brought doughnuts to a strike...the union is part of my family.
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Not all unions are the same. I do see some of the importance of unions when I work on files every day of injured workers similar to your father. But teaching unions deal with a lot different subject matter than those of blue collar workers.
But are they necessary for teaching? Can they get too much power? In my opinion, they're not really necessary for teaching. And I do think they can get too much power when they offer too many protections, such as when the pay isn't commessurate (spelling way off on that one...) with performance. When a teacher can continually be lazy and not make any effort and still get pay raises.