GOP courts union support, but not when it comes to teachers

[RandySF]

Republicans have taken a more favorable view of labor unions in recent years, but that hasn’t stopped the party from attacking unionized teachers at the recent GOP presidential debate, with one candidate vowing to “break the back” of the teachers’ unions.

In the most recent results of the Gallup Social Series published ahead of Labor Day, support for unions is highest among Democrats and lowest among Republicans. Support among Republicans was 47 percent, down from 56 percent in the same poll a year ago but broadly on an upward trajectory since 2009, when it stood at 29 percent.

The Republican Party has sought to recalibrate its brand in the Donald Trump era, courting working class voters and even making a play for union endorsements. Earlier this summer, Trump released a video asking the United Auto Workers for its support. (The union has yet to publicly back a candidate, but it endorsed Joe Biden in 2020.)

Yet the GOP’s overtures toward unionized workers does not extend to educators, who form a broad swath of the unionized workforce and remain one of the party’s top targets. That’s probably in no small part because of GOP disapproval of the state of public education as well as the unions’ strong alliance with the Democratic Party.

Fully 74 percent of those the pollsters described as Republicans and Republican-leaning independents were either somewhat or completely dissatisfied with educational quality, another survey by Gallup found.




https://rollcall.com/2023/09/01/gop-courts-union-support-but-not-when-it-comes-to-teachers/

[onecaliberal]

1. Because they don't have greedy billionaire bosses to rep them.

[kimbutgar]

2. I am a substitute teacher and I get a monthly magazine from the NEA National Education Association

This months magazine had a two page article titled Joe Biden: A President who hears our voices.

NEA is the largest Labor Union in the country and they talk about how much the Biden Administration has prioritized funding for public schools, and has invested in schools and helped teachers forgive their student loan debt.

No wonder the repukes hate the teachers unions. And an educated populace is harder to control than a poorly educated one. I hear the orange maggot saying he loves the poorly educated.

[senseandsensibility]

3. Bob Dole trashed teacher's unions back in the 90's

and so did his republican cohorts. The rightwing have been trying to privatize schools for decades. I'm glad this is getting attention, but it is far from new. And it is done for profit.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. The 'teachers' support PUBLIC (meaning EVERYBODY)..

education. Those supporting ‘school choice’ (means ‘I don’t want my kids in school with ‘them!’) and allowing PUBLIC money to support ‘private’ schools, whether they be ‘church’ supported or other ‘groups’ that will promote their own curriculum (and these same people talk about ‘CRT’ et al as being why they want ‘choice!’).
Sweet Betsy DeVos tried her best to promote this ‘School choice’ move (AKA: ‘Let us make money from all of this!’) and supporting family-related testing groups that could produce numbers supporting their goals (or whatever ‘numbers anybody wanted to support their own program).
SAME rule/warning we had from Watergate - FOLLOW THE MONEY!

[Fullduplexxx]

5. Unions they're trying to destroy? Really?