Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "'We're Finished, We're Finished': Randi Weingarten's Attempt To Interject Shut Down By GOP Lawmaker" video.

There's a real split between the leadership of the teachers unions and the membership. I was a teacher for thirty years. Most of my colleagues opposed remote school during the pandemic, but the leadership and administration supported it, so that's what we got. We'd vote out one set out of union leaders and the new ones would be just as bad as the old. I once ran for a union position as a reformer and was the target of a smear campaign--still got 35% of the vote, but the dirty tactics used against me left a bitter taste in my mouth. The only time I got ANY action out of my union on ANY issue was after the Janus case, where the Supreme Court ruled that we teachers could opt out of paying dues. I sent a "Janus letter" to my union as a last resort, revoking their right to collect dues from me--THEN they suddenly leapt into action on my case and got the administration to stop requiring me to work overtime without pay. I'd spent nearly a year on that issue, and all I had to do to get the union to act was to threaten to stop paying them. Weingarten is extremely corrupt and needs to go. Whatever her agenda is, it's NOT what's good for students nor teachers. Her entire administration is stuffed with her cronies (who all have to be members of the Rainbow Tribe) who get paid a lot to do very little.
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