[lbo-talk] Latest Sign of Unions Under Siege

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 04:29:14 PDT 2012


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/education/in-chicago-teachers-strike-signs-of-unions-under-siege.html?_r=0

Even so, Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a liberal-leaning research group, said that not only Republicans but also many Democrats were aiming their fire at teachers’ unions.

“They’re getting very little support from some Democrats,” he said. “The Obama administration has adopted a center-right position on issues like nonunion charter schools and performance pay. The places where teachers’ unions used to look for support are no longer coming through for them.”

[WS:] It does not make much sense. If O loses teacher unions support he may as well kiss his political ass goodbye in November, as there is no way that his union bashing, or for that matter anything he does or says, to make repug racists vote for him. -- Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."



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