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[center][big]The Labor Union Movement[/big][/center] Started back in the mid 1700's and grew from there. Unions were an integral part of helping the growth of America and it's workers. Fast Forward to present day and Unions no longer represent the American values that we hold dear. Yes, unions protect workers from those mean ole business owners, but what about the rest of us and our children?

[b][center][big]The Teachers No One Wants[/big][/center][/b]
[i]New York forces its worst teachers back into classrooms[/i]

For decades the United Federation of Teachers has protected perverts, drunkards and other classroom miscreants from being fired. Now the union’s allies plan to put some of these teachers back in New York City schools.

On Monday the city’s Department of Education said it will require city schools to fill between 300 and 400 vacancies from the Absent Teacher Reserve, or ATR. This is the politically sanitized name for the [b]“rubber rooms” where teachers who couldn’t be fired but no one wanted would sit from 8:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. collecting a paycheck as they napped or played cards.[/b] After a horrified public learned of the practice, the city abolished rubber rooms in 2010.

But many of those same teachers are now in ATR, which is no long a physical room but remains a form of employment limbo. Some teachers are there because their last school closed. But trained, licensed teachers in ATR can apply for vacant positions in 1,700 other public schools. If a teacher can’t find another job in such a large system, there’s probably a good reason principals don’t want him.

Three years ago schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña vowed “there will be no forced placement of staff.” But now she would effectively mandate that schools take teachers they initially rejected. This includes teachers who end up in ATR because they drink too much, have abused students, or for some other misconduct that renders them unfit for the classroom.

The underlying problem is a tenure system that makes it all but impossible to fire teachers after they’ve spent four years on the job. Those suspended for misconduct continue to receive pay, pension contributions and benefits as disciplinary hearings stretch on and on, sometimes for years. Unions have the power each year to approve or reject the arbitrators who decide misconduct cases.

Under this rigged system, New York fired a mere 61 of its 78,000 teachers over a decade, the American Enterprise Institute found in 2014. Each teacher in ATR costs taxpayers about $100,000 a year, so no wonder many have declined the city’s $50,000 buyout offers.

The logical solution would be to make it easier to fire bad teachers, but Mayor Bill de Blasio is a wholly owned union subsidiary. Poor students will bear the real cost of his rubber-room rebound as their education suffers with a subpar teacher—or worse. No wonder tens of thousands of parents have put their children on waiting lists for charter schools that are free to hire and fire teachers on the merits, not by union diktat.

By The Editorial Board WSJ
July 13, 2017 7:36 p.m. ET
Because unions in of themselves have become their own business entity. They are only interested in maintaining their business by collecting union dues. They are no longer really for the workers that they represent.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
Agreed. Only academia uses the tenure system rather than merit based work force management.
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