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il Padrino Ute · 02-15-2006, 12:45 AM

My Mom taught 2nd grad for 40 years and refused to be a part of the teachers' union, mostly becuse she didn't like the political leaning of the UEA.

There was one particular parent who really had a problem that my Mom required that her son should do the same amount of work as the other students. This was a very wealthy woman who somehow got the principal to cave in to her demands, but Mom wouldn't budge. When another teacher - who happened to be the President of the UEA - tried to use this to bully Mom into joining the union because, in her words, "you need the UEA to help you fight the battle", Mom told her that "the day she needed an organization to fight her battles is the day that I stop thinking for myself".

As for me, I don't like unions because as someone here so accurately stated "the union is good for management, ot the worker."

02-15-2006, 12:45 AM	#4
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	My Mom taught 2nd grad for 40 years and refused to be a part of the teachers' union, mostly becuse she didn't like the political leaning of the UEA. There was one particular parent who really had a problem that my Mom required that her son should do the same amount of work as the other students. This was a very wealthy woman who somehow got the principal to cave in to her demands, but Mom wouldn't budge. When another teacher - who happened to be the President of the UEA - tried to use this to bully Mom into joining the union because, in her words, "you need the UEA to help you fight the battle", Mom told her that "the day she needed an organization to fight her battles is the day that I stop thinking for myself". As for me, I don't like unions because as someone here so accurately stated "the union is good for management, ot the worker." __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.