tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post1071047988137481288..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: Watch Childish (and harmful) Union Antics In ActionDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-16422234614592853042007-03-05T20:50:00.000-08:002007-03-05T20:50:00.000-08:00EllenK, I agree--which is why I almost always supp...EllenK, I agree--which is why I almost always support my *local* union. In fact, if I could, I'd be a member of the local but *not* of the state and national unions. But since the requirement is to join all or none, I join none.<BR/><BR/>If unions focused *solely* on Darren's pay, benefits, and working conditions, I wouldn't have a problem with them. But they don't, so I do. They're nothing more than PACs for left-wing causes, as I've chronicled many times on this blog. <BR/><BR/>And nothing excuses the behavior evident in that video.Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-56034017643970584282007-03-05T19:54:00.000-08:002007-03-05T19:54:00.000-08:00Let me play devil's advocate here. I don't like un...Let me play devil's advocate here. I don't like unions and I know how they run the teachers unions in other states. But then again, unions come about because workers feel they have no voice. When decent teachers get penalized, arrested or accused of serious offenses by parents who are simply off their rockers, there has to be some sort of defense. Most school district would prefer to settle out of court and quietly let teachers go without really investigating issues. That leaves the teacher with no job, no ability to get a teaching job and the feeling like they have been used. They have. I don't like unions, I don't live in a union state, but those types of feelings that lead to unionizations don't come out of no where. They come from desperation. And when you have no where else to turn for support, you clutch at straws-even those that are flawed and weedy.Ellen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845981491726296767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-44093285608302227362007-03-04T08:28:00.000-08:002007-03-04T08:28:00.000-08:00As I recently told my liberal teacher friend from ...As I recently told my liberal teacher friend from NYC, my issue with unions for government employees is that such unions are not and can never be unions. They're institutionalized government bureaucracies. It's not quite so bad in a right to work state, but I can't imagine how unions ever got the power to extort money and use it without consent, much less how they defend it.rightwingprofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12419372059353408855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-56923943654897344852007-03-03T23:51:00.000-08:002007-03-03T23:51:00.000-08:00Good for that NRTW speaker for not letting the fas...Good for that NRTW speaker for not letting the fascist pigs behind him from stopping him from speaking. By going forward with his speech, he made those morons look like the totalitarians they are.<BR/><BR/>Right out of the Gandhi/MLK playbook.W.R. Chandlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05908482384887766964noreply@blogger.com