Voucher Supporters may be anti-union, so what? Why shouldn't they?
In the rambling, nonsensical and almost incoherent Letter to the Editor "Position on Vouchers shows anti-union stance" 1/3/02, Richard Waltmire claimed that that Dispatch reporter Tom Harker, most likely a union member himself, shows an anti-union bias while writing about the Cleveland school voucher system.
Even if this is true, Richard Waltmire failed to even attempt to address why an anti-union stance is wrong, or even how unions have improved the educational system.
Have unions helped in making education more affordable and efficient? No.
Have international test scores been improving since the union's have become involved in education? No.
Has the union pay scale that pays teachers equally regardless of real earned merit, quality, and or performance, a system that pays good teachers as much as bad teachers resulting in the good teachers being underpaid and leaving and bad teachers being overpaid and given tenure, help improve our children's education? No.
Have the unions helped keep our public schools apolitical and focused on learning? No, they essentially celebrate the fact that over 90% of their PAC money is given to the political left. To them it seems, schools are centers of leftist indoctrination, not higher learning.
Considering that teachers are often considered the lowest paid "professionals," a fact the union freely publicize during wage negotiations, have the unions earned competitive pay for their members? No.
Look around the Nation. Is it possible to find one single PRIVATE industry that is unionized and not struggling? Considering that union membership has been in sharp decline over the last two decades, with membership and job opportunities near historic lows for union members, the answer is a resounding no.
What Richard Waltmire did reveal in his letter was the Union's anti-Freedom stance.
Unions are against FREE-trade. They don't what the consumer to have the freedom to buy the best products at the lowest price. They want America to be restricted to buying only union made goods. They don't what America to have the Freedom to Choose the school that will educate their children. They want America restricted to unionized public schools. Most insultingly however is Mr. Waltmire implication that being pro-freedom, pro-school choice, pro-free markets is somehow anti-working class. I find it unfortunate that all the unions can offer America is an assault of Freedom.
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Topic: Voucher Supporters may be anti-union, so what?
