[lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble and the union

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Sat Mar 4 15:06:40 PST 2006


On Mar 3, 2006, at 3:48 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote:


>
> I called the Colorado Education Association, which as an affiliate
> union at Overland HS. I suggested that the union should give all-
> out support to the teacher. I was told that Mr. Bennish is not a
> union member. I was then directed to the voice mail of someone in
> the union presumably dealing with this. I left a long message.
> But it amazed me that the union would dismiss this by saying
> Bennish is not a member. So what? I mean what hope is there if a
> union won't support a teacher under such horrible attack.
> Solidarity? Principles? Fightback? Forget about it. And on the
> Air America liberal station in Denver, the sappy liberal talk show
> folks could only muster a pathetic, "Well, I don't know about this
> one. What do you folks think?"
>

That may have been true of Ed Schulze (a former Republican who loves to fish and hunt which bores us all to tears) or Al Franken (who really doesn't know very much at all about anything) but MIKE MALLOY who is based in Atlanta was raging mad about it. Marta



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