It’s that time of year, so let’s continue the round-up: * Marietta English was re-elected as president of the Baltimore Teachers Union. This will be her seventh three-year term, and it has become so pro forma that the union didn’t even bother to announce the tabulated vote, the turnout, or even if she had a [...]
Andy Rotherham wins the week with his call for the best education songs. There a quite a few crowd favorites, and a bunch more submitted on Twitter, but I thought I’d concentrate on the ones that won’t make anyone’s list. Here they are, in no particular order: 1) The Teacher Tenure Song. 2) The opening [...]
NEA affiliates in the Pacific Northwest have had more than their share of labor problems with their own employees. The Idaho Education Association was sanctioned by the national staff union, the Oregon Education Association saw staff protests during a long and bitter contract negotiation, and now the employees of the Washington Education Association are distributing [...]
Here’s a commercial designed to appeal to the corporate thinkers out there.
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka is upset that Walmart is offering jobs to returning military veterans. “After facing enemies abroad, is an $8.81 an hour part-time job the best we can offer returning veterans?” asks Trumka. He’s right. Veterans deserve more than $8.81 an hour. And I know a place where they can do much better, [...]
It’s often a mystery how teacher union voters choose one candidate over another in union officer elections. Education Minnesota’s recent presidential upset of incumbent Tom Dooher by secretary-treasurer Denise Specht was especially mysterious. On those rare occasions when challengers unseat incumbents, it’s usually through promises to get tougher with management. But Specht appears to promise [...]
