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New York Teachers Fight Politicians’ Plan to Bust Unions |
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Edwize is covering a union-busting scheme afoot in New York schools, gratis Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Republican Gov. George Pataki.
The United Federation of Teachers (UFT), the New York City teachers’ union, believes charter schools can work if regulated for quality—and has started two charters in New York City to prove the union contract doesn’t inhibit the success of charter schools.
But Pataki, Bloomberg and others are trying to make it nearly impossible for the union to sign up members at charter schools. During the fall, a group of union-busting law firms held a conference specifically to keep unions out of charters.
Now, a teacher has been fired at a charter high school in Brooklyn—and UFT believes it’s because she supported joining a union.
Read more at Edwize.
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[...] AFL-CIO NOW: [...]
[...] California Governor Schwarzenegger has put together his “Education Coalition,” and packed it full of right-wing, anti-union members. And the AFL-CIO Now reports that New York Governor Pataki, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others are trying to make it nearly impossible for the union to sign up members at charter schools [...]