Unions

Chicago Teacher Union on Cover of Socialism Conference Program

May 17, 2013

Unions are socialist constructs…who could be suprised to see the CTU proudly displayed on the cover of the program for the annual Socialim Conference?

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April 20th GrokTALK! Snippets – Segment Four: Guest – NH Business Owner Josh Youssef

April 21, 2013

In Segment four we talk with Josh Youssef, local small business owner and former candidate for the New Hampshire State Senate,  about HB 370 (repealing education choice),  State Senator Andrew Hosmer, education in general, what the Teachers Unions are actually after, and more.  (With Dr. Julianne Cooper who sticks around to add to the conversation.) [ Read more ]

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Red Rover in Dover

April 10, 2013

In Norwegian, apparently, Røver means Pirate.  I won’t hold fast to that definition.  I just learned it on Wikipedia, which is about as reliable as a school board in Dover spending your tax dollars to pay lobbyists to push legislation you may not support.  Which is what I mean by pirate.  The Dover school board, [ Read more ]

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Public Educators Caught in Massive Cheating Conspiracy

April 3, 2013

Public Educators in Atlanta have been caught in a massive cheating conspiracy designed to hide poor reading and math skills.  “The four principle crimes that are charged in the indictment are the statements and writings, false swearings, theft by taking, and influencing witnesses,” Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard, Jr. said. Racketeering charges are also [ Read more ]

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Oh WHY did we think that this would be part of those FAA tower closures?

March 23, 2013

I learned to fly out of the Lawrence Airport in MA and part of the training was to fly in and out of smaller airports.  I learned the radio frequencies to use to announce my entry into the landing / takeoff patter and to toggle the runway lights.  Standard fare as most of the airports [ Read more ]

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Yes, Dan, it’s for the children

March 8, 2013

The salient points of the Hillsboro-Deering Teachers’ Contract:

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The War on Poor Children by Religious Bigots in New Hampshire

March 4, 2013

There is an excellent article over at Math Wizards, on the effort by some in New Hampshire to repeal a scholarship program for poor kids titled “HB370: A WAR ON POOR CHILDREN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE by RELIGIOUS BIGOTS?” The article observes that opponents are pointing to the NH State constitution as a reason for repeal, but [ Read more ]

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What Ever Happened to The Inductive Method?

February 16, 2013

Another great video on education destined to make the public school union folks bleed out their eyes.  Here’s the blurb from PJTV and Next Generation TV. Victor Davis Hanson joins Col. Allen B. West to discuss our modern system of education. In the zero sum game of educating our children, Dr. Hanson asks, who is [ Read more ]

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I’m a Doctor, You’re a Doctor, He’s a Doctor….

February 13, 2013

…She’s a Doctor, wouldn’t you like to be a doctor too? You might be a doctor and you didn’t even know it, because that is how you solve a doctor shortage caused by oppressive legislation in the peoples Republik of (in this case) Kalifornia.  Not enough “Doctors”… change the definition of doctor and Bam! Problem [ Read more ]

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How Teachers Unions Hurt Schools

February 11, 2013

Prager Universitie’s latest great video is “How Teachers Unions Hurt Schools.” I’m in a hurry so  I’ll just snag some context from Breitbart for now: ” ‘How Teachers Unions Hurt Schools is narrated by Stanford Professor Terry Moe.   Moe explains how the Obama administration’s admissions that the education system is broken contradict their pro-union stance. “Union [ Read more ]

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Are You a Union Member or a Lease?

February 6, 2013

After reading an article posted by Mike Antonucci yesterday at HotAir – included in it’s entirety below – I went to the NH Public Employee Labor Relations Board site to scan some NH collective bargaining agreements to learn whether this question should be asked here in NH.  In at least one case – the first [ Read more ]

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Heh

January 26, 2013

More from The Looking Spoon

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The Left’s War on Education

January 12, 2013

The left’s objection to even one tax dollar finding its way into the hands of a church is legion.  It is (apparently) a matter of even greater concern that we might engage in tax policy that accidentally encourages others–by allowing them to keep more of their own money–to give some of it to a religious [ Read more ]

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Witness To Union Thuggery

December 14, 2012

Breitbart is posting a series of statements by people who observed or were objects of Union thuggery in Michigan.   I’ve posted one here on the front and several more on the jump.   They are each relatively short so take a few moments to watch them.  It is important to understand that this was not just [ Read more ]

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Footage from Inside AFP Tent In Michigan

December 14, 2012

This is footage shot from inside the AFP tent in Lansing as the tent was overrun by angry union protesters and began to come down.  It’s very shaky but here it is.

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Michigan AFP Tent Truthers?

December 13, 2012

You’ve heard by now, I hope, that the American’s for Prosperity (AFP) Tent in Lansing, Michigan (State Capital), was knocked down and overrun by angry Union protesters–while some activists remained trapped underneath?   (You can find Grok Coverage on that and more  here, here, here, and here.) AFP was there on the front lines to educate and [ Read more ]

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Tweet of the Day – Week – Ever? on Unions Vs Right to Work?

December 13, 2012

Fellow Grokster(ette?) Susan Olsen dropped this into our email this morning.  No, not ‘the royal ‘Our’ as in the royal ‘we,’ as in ‘We are not amused.’  I mean “Our” as in our Grok group email.  Anyway, this hits it out of the park on Michigan and Right to Work, and the Unions and Democrats [ Read more ]

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More Compensation and Job Growth In Right To Work States

December 12, 2012

If union thugs are not beating on you, they are lying to you (about job growth and wage growth), and so is your President.  But here’s the truth… According to Michigan’s Mackinac Center, using data taken from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and Bureau of Labor Statistics, private-sector, inflation-adjusted employee compensation in right-to-work states increased [ Read more ]

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Update AFP -Michigan

December 11, 2012

Right to work Bills have passed both Houses of the Michigan State Legislature and the governor has already said he’d sign them into law. Earlier today Tim Condon updated us with the video of union protesters knocking down the Americans for Prosperity tent in Lansing, trapping some activists under it.  It’s sad but none of [ Read more ]

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Decay Point

November 16, 2012

Societal decay has many symptoms.  One of which that mottles our society like a cancerous blotch on the drooping bosom of freedom is the unending, unforgiving, and unyielding sense of entitlement –entitled to things coming not just from government, but directly from fellow citizens as well. The expression supposedly uttered from Marie Antoinette to the [ Read more ]

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Who cares about a child’s education? Conservatives!

October 19, 2012

Liberals (typically Democrats) and Conservatives (typically Republicans) have very different viewpoints about education.  Liberals see the public school educational establishment (the unions, the government bureaucracies, the University Education Departments, etc.) as the way to educate children (except occasionally for their own children).    Conservatives believe results are the important thing, “Is the child getting a [ Read more ]

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A Loud, Proud, ”NAY” On Stroud (Candidate, Hillsborough 21, Merrimack)

September 9, 2012

In June of 2011, I contacted current House candidate Representative Kathleen Stroud and asked her about her reasoning for not supporting Right to Work (HB474).  She replied with the usual vacuous boilerplate one expects from a politician, but what surprised me was her reasoning’s incoherence and lack of depth.  What I found most off-putting was [ Read more ]

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No “race to the bottom” with THESE Union Leaders!

August 17, 2012

I look at the rate of increase of compensation for these Union heads and immediately starting thinking: Wow, there’s no “race to the bottom here” in these paychecks! Gee, all of these amounts come from – union members! Gee – have their respective unions grown in membership to warrant such remuneration? (er, no – union [ Read more ]

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What About Unions Paying “Their” Fair Share

August 5, 2012

The left and the unions are obsessed with big corporations and the rich paying ‘Their fair Share,” but when are the great big unions, who can expend billions (4.4 billion from 2006-2011) on political campaigns, (but pay no taxes) going to start paying their fair share? Labor unions are nonprofits, and they rake in millions [ Read more ]

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Finally Some School Choice in NH

July 17, 2012

New Hampshire parents and children should annually celebrate June 27th.  On that day, the NH Legislature enacted SB 372 which helps the children of low and middle income families attend the schools of their choice rather than being trapped in failing and mediocre public schools.   On June 27th 251 Republicans and one Democrat overrode [ Read more ]

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