Getting Through to Unions
Posted on March 8th, 2010 by Admin
It’s amazing what a mass of pink slips can do to make a teachers union see the light — especially when the layoffs are publicly hailed by the president of the United States.
On Monday, President Obama endorsed the decision by Rhode Island’s smallest, poorest city to fire the entire unionized faculty of its notoriously underperforming high school.
Just 48 hours later, the union caved — and publicly pledged to support reforms that it had earlier rejected.