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Comment on Nope, Still Not Worried About Charter School Unionization by Ze'ev Wurman

Ze'ev Wurman — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:16:49 +0000

Like you, I am also not worried, and for a different reason.

If the union contracts will get in the way of running a charter school, the charter operator always has a choice — close the schools down and make those teacher unemployed. Charter teachers know it, and will behave accordingly. Meanwhile, unionization will hopefully protect those teachers that truly need the protection.

That’s the difference between unionization of government organizations and unionization of private (semi-private, in this case) organizations. Unfortunately, you can’t close the former.

Comment on Big Fish in a Little Pond of Voters by allen

allen — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:31:07 +0000

Union elections are poorly attended because there’s not much point in voting – the first order of business of the elected officials is to make sure they never lose their positions and they go to considerable efforts to ensure that never happens.

What distinguishes one candidate from the other is, at least on the issues, is how much more the challenger is promising the membership then the incumbent. “More” is all any union has to offer so it’s just a matter of who’s more credible in the pursuit of that “more”.

Comment on Widmer Committed Suicide, Left $50K to Union in Will by AdvoSnob

AdvoSnob — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:39:41 +0000

Piqued my interest since I’m from Finger Lakes Region in NY. Auburn is not in Yates County. Yates county real estate records show in 2004 built a nice new $400K cottage on the prestigous banks of Canandaigua Lake: “Wm & Sally Sanford”, 5960 Widmer Road (private drive), Italy, NY. Coincidence? Widmer is familiar name to NY wine country: http://www.winesandvines.com/template.cfm?section=news&content=72911.

Comment on Math Skills Not Required by adriana vasquez

adriana vasquez — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:41:28 +0000

That is not the best thing. RUBEN and the Board of Directors of CCEA also knowingly hired two more crooks to run their union. John Vellardita and Marti Garza. Read all about it.

http://m.reviewjournal.com/news/education/federal-court-upholds-2010-ruling-against-man-who-took-post-executive-director-clark

Comment on WEAC Executive Director Stepping Down by Darren

Darren — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:58:17 +0000

Burkhalter? Perhaps Wilhelm Klink can replace him.

Comment on Hedge Fund Hilarity by Darren

Darren — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:55:32 +0000

Excellent observation, Mike :)

Comment on Hedge Fund Hilarity by Virginia Koenig

Virginia Koenig — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:26:33 +0000

This is absolutely ludicrous!

Fund managers are supposed to invest funds for the best benefit of their clients, not to satisfy a power-hungry tyrant who wants to see how many people she can manipulate.

Bravo that the fund manager didn’t take the bait.