Archive for October 2012

It’s not what you know, it’s how many close ties you have when you’re a union official.  Dave Low, Executive Director of the California School Employees Association, is also in charge of an organization of other government union employees, Californians for Healthcare and Retirement Security. Records show that he was also a consultant to Blue Shield…

Right to Work top target for union allies By Mark Mix Tuesday, October 9, 2012                   As President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden campaign for re-election, they feel compelled time and again to remind anyone who has gathered to hear them that America’s economic troubles started well before they got to the White House.…

A growing trend in Colorado has been for school boards and administration to move away from the restraints of monopoly bargaining, taking back the power invested in them by the district and parents.  Witness the Harrison 2 School district, which did away with bargaining under Superintendent Mike Miles’ tenure, and instituted a fair merit pay…

Tolerance for me, but not for Thee.  Every parent knows how quick teens are to spot hypocrisy.   When teacher union officials insist they are “for the kids,” then turn around and negotiate such rules into a bargaining contract, it makes one wonder what they were thinking when they negotiated the terms for this contract.   What…

“Won’t Back Down” is a tribute – to hardworking, courageous teachers AND parents everywhere.  It is a tribute to everyone who stands up for their convictions and suffers the slings and arrows of the powerful, the narrow-minded and the lazy entrenched.  Although the phrase “Won’t Back Down” is more contemporary, the movie reminds us of Martin…