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Thanks to the Rodda Act signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in 1975 teachers in California do NOT work for a school district; they actually work for a union. Or if the union decides like they did yesterday in Wisconsin, they stay home, carry pickets and refuse to teach.
"Labor leaders argue that unions protect the rights of workers, but employees are already protected by a substantial body of law. This is especially true of government workers, including public school teachers, who are protected by a labyrinth of civil service law and regulation. Given these statutory protections, how does CTA ostensibly serve its members - public school teachers? The CTA aims to increase public school teacher salaries and to provide them job protection. In that, it is largely successful. Aside from aiding local unions in collective bargaining, it lobbies the Governor and Legislature for more school funding and union-favorable laws. These local and state efforts often work hand-in-hand; lobbyists in Sacramento argue for more public school money and local unions demand contractual clauses calling for pay raises based on these funding increases. In this way, increases in school spending flow through the local contracts directly into teacher salary schedules. Increased salaries help union leadership justify and demand higher dues, which teachers are mandated to pay."
Unions, not taxpayers or parents control government education. Mess with a union and teachers will defeat you for office, make sure your kids do not get a quality education and harass you to hell if needed, just to get their way.
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"Labor leaders argue that unions protect the rights of workers, but employees are already protected by a substantial body of law. This is especially true of government workers, including public school teachers, who are protected by a labyrinth of civil service law and regulation. Given these statutory protections, how does CTA ostensibly serve its members - public school teachers? The CTA aims to increase public school teacher salaries and to provide them job protection. In that, it is largely successful. Aside from aiding local unions in collective bargaining, it lobbies the Governor and Legislature for more school funding and union-favorable laws. These local and state efforts often work hand-in-hand; lobbyists in Sacramento argue for more public school money and local unions demand contractual clauses calling for pay raises based on these funding increases. In this way, increases in school spending flow through the local contracts directly into teacher salary schedules. Increased salaries help union leadership justify and demand higher dues, which teachers are mandated to pay."
Unions, not taxpayers or parents control government education. Mess with a union and teachers will defeat you for office, make sure your kids do not get a quality education and harass you to hell if needed, just to get their way.
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