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2016 Postmortem

Smarmie Doofus

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4. Why do you say unions are reactionary?

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #3)

Sat Aug 17, 2013, 05:19 PM

Aug 2013

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How did things get so bad that teachers felt the need to unionize in the first place?
Labor unions tend to be reactionary.>>>

The reverse is much more often the case. Unless you're referencing the VN-George Meaney period... which was an historical anomaly.

And teachers unionized because they received miserable pay and had no job security. ( Pretty much the same reasons everybody forms unions.)

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Here we go bashing teachers unions again [View all] bigdarryl Aug 2013 OP

We still have unions? Smarmie Doofus Aug 2013 #1

Yeah. Igel Aug 2013 #2

One thing I always consider.... Wounded Bear Aug 2013 #3

Why do you say unions are reactionary? Smarmie Doofus Aug 2013 #4

I think you answered your own question.... Wounded Bear Aug 2013 #7

Not many people go into teaching to make "the big bucks." Smarmie Doofus Aug 2013 #5

Last I checked, Democratic Platform was pro-union, not pro-blue collar union Drahthaardogs Aug 2013 #10

republican plan is to kill off public schools and go private 'for profit'. Sunlei Aug 2013 #6

Don't look now but that seems to be the Democratic plan also. n/t Smarmie Doofus Aug 2013 #8

what political party do you think is anti-union in this country? Sunlei Aug 2013 #9