Big Labor Partisanship at Teacher Expense
by Jason HartHowever they market themselves, public unions are political by nature, brimming partisanship that goes beyond their skewed campaign spending. Every Republican teacher, public safety worker, and government employee forced to pay “fair share” dues should be outraged.
My state’s National Education Association (NEA) affiliate, the Ohio Education Association (OEA), takes millions in fees from non-members each year. Operating on NEA’s model, OEA insists all teachers be forced to pay for the union’s non-political business. This would be well and good, if OEA conducted any non-political business.
From the union’s mission statement:
OEA believes that for those whose business is public education, activism is an obligation.
OEA has the same definition of “activism” as every garden variety leftist group: Demand bigger government under the guise of fairness and equality. For example, ACORN’s 2005-06 Political Program (hat tip: Publius’ Forum) lists OEA as a “Coalition Partner” -
We see the combination of these efforts as key to maintaining and expanding the level of electoral participation by more progressive voters in the state, along with playing a role in pushing voter alignment along axes of community concerns and economic security.
In other words, OEA worked with ACORN to push the entitlement mindset and get entitlement-minded voters to the polls. For… the children?
More recently, OEA was listed as a state partner of “Health Care for America NOW” (a lobbying group devoted to socialized medicine) and the Ohio Voter Fund (a coalition of leftists against voter ID).
NEA and its state affiliates are enthusiastic cheerleaders for Keynesian deficit spending, though I wouldn’t want the task of finding a math teacher who insists one minus two equals jobs!
Honestly, NEA’s entire “Education Votes” blog could be an Obama 2012 campaign site. NEA publicly endorsed Obama’s reelection last July, ending hours of heated debate among no one: every Big Labor affiliation and stump speech flies in the face of the lie that partisanship is limited to official campaign spending.
When the public union stranglehold was threatened in Ohio last winter, OEA’s class war machine went into overdrive at the expense of willing and unwilling dues-payers alike. Progressive talking points come easily to a group that instructs members to indoctrinate children on the glories of unionism!
NEA bosses take advantage of the goodwill teachers generate, paying themselves and Democrats handsomely while claiming credit for members’ hard work. Unless you look forward to the second Obama term NEA is sinking millions into, be sure your friends and family know teachers’ unions want higher taxes and bigger government.
There’s much more evidence than what I’ve listed here, and I’ll continue highlighting the ugly Progressive truth about NEA and its partners here in Ohio.
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Team Parasite is deeply entrenched, sucking the life out of the producers, the Ohioan taxpayer aka “host.” All of Western civilization has been hurled into the abyss by moochers with their hand constantly out, expecting something for nothing. Either deal with the parasite infestation, or the host will perish…then what?
VOTE!
It is time for all public employee unions to go. Unions were never intended for public employees. Like all good things in the beginning, human nature makes us take them to the extreme. Here we are. Instead of protecting employees from tyrannical bosses, they have become what they were to protect us from. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. If they are not stopped now communism is the ultimate result.
Unions and the DNCPUSA are trying to spark a communist revolution in the US…
Lock N' Load!
The only solution is to pass "right to work" laws, and get rid of the forced unionization entirely.
However Ohio just rejected union reform, so apparently they haven't suffered enough. Maybe when they become Michigan or California they'll wake up from their collective stupor.
This summer in Wisconsin,……
we will see if we are all bark and,……..
no bite.
I remember the stories my grandmother used to tell us about our grandfather, a well-connected guy from Sicily (if you get the inference). The way grandpa and his "friends" conducted business is little different from the public unions, but at least the wiseguys had some sense of honor and were patriots who loved America – public unions, not so much.
I was very vocal in my support of SB5 on Twitter. When it was clear that the leftist propagandists had fooled enough Ohioans, another Twitter account holder, who works in Secretary of State's office, IIRC, did his little touchdown dance, and mocked my efforts.
When I informed him that it would be those he purported to defend, who would suffer most, he just laughed me off, and said I was just sore because I "backed the wrong horse."
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Backed the wrong horse.
To many of them, it's really just a game…a game fueled by prejudice or resentment.
Sorry. I'll back the right side of an issue, or the right candidate, rather than just be content to be on the side which, on a first-order analysis, "won."
I wonder what would happen if the State was able to sneak in a law outlawing teachers from unionizing?
And now Ohio pays the price….. They're getting what they asked for. Too bad there are good people who knew better and tried to stop this who have to suffer now too.
You may be interested in the fact that I signed a right to work petition one hour ago here in Ohio.
So we got rid of a loser SoS in order to get another loser Soros SoS?
No. This "public servant" probably is a hold over from the previous SoS. Who knows what sabotage is wrought under such circumstances.
My first experience with teachers unions was when I was in 7th grade (1979). Our teachers were on strike, so we had subs. I was walking into school and was called a scab (quite loudly) by the picketers. For the children my a$$.
But Husted is a" Republican" who was pushed by the Republican party. Does this make me sound naive I'm thinking so.
The "public servant" in question appears to work in an IT capacity.
That is, as the lefists say "Speaking truth to power".
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