The Worst Union in America

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http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_california-teachers-association.html

How the California Teachers Association betrayed the schools and crippled the state

All this money has helped the union rack up an imposing number of victories. The first major win came in 1988, with the passage of Proposition 98. That initiative compelled California to spend more than 40 percent of its annual budget on education in grades K–12 and community college. The spending quota eliminated schools’ incentive to get value out of every dollar: since funding was locked in, there was no need to make things run cost-effectively. Thanks to union influence on local school boards, much of the extra money—about $450 million a year—went straight into teachers’ salaries.

One of the most noticeable changes at Locke has ramifications statewide: when Green Dot took over, it required all teachers to reapply for their jobs. It hired back only about one-third of them. That approach is unimaginable in the rest of the state’s public schools, where a teaching job is essentially a lifetime sinecure. A tiny 0.03 percent of California teachers are dismissed after three or more years on the job.

The CTA’s most recent crusade for job security made clear that the union was prepared to jeopardize the financial future of California’s schools. Last June, it vigorously pushed (and Governor Brown hastily signed) Assembly Bill 114, which prevented any teacher layoffs or program cuts in the coming fiscal year and removed the requirement that school districts present balanced budget plans.



The very sad story on how, with the consent of the electorate, the California teachers union dominated the state and walked off with the treasury.

It's a shame they don't have a Scott Walker or a Chris Christie to start punching them back.

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Far worse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Medical_Association

The AMA is a union?

It's certainly true that the AMA has been useful at boosting the number of physicians in the United States, although not to the same success as the teachers unions.

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Far worse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Medical_Association

The AMA is a union?

It's certainly true that the AMA has been useful at boosting the number of physicians in the United States, although not to the same success as the teachers unions.

Quite the opposite. The AMA has been instrumental in keeping the number of doctors low. Artificial shortage means higher prices.

It's certainly true that doctor compensation grew very quickly in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, but since the 1990s, compensation for physicians has hardly grown in such a manner.


On the other hand, California teachers swelled by 250,000 since 1990.

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*Gasp* Paying teachers for everything they do? Their salaries are already a whopping $50,000!

You forgot the other half of the problem, namely, the fact that we're paying far too many teachers to do whatever the heck they do when we don't even need em.


California added 250,000 teachers from 1990 to 2008. No wonder they had and have massive budgetary issues!

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*Gasp* Paying teachers for everything they do? Their salaries are already a whopping $50,000!

You forgot the other half of the problem, namely, the fact that we're paying far too many teachers to do whatever the heck they do when we don't even need em.


California added 250,000 teachers from 1990 to 2008. No wonder they had and have massive budgetary issues!

Lol.

we dn't ned no edjucayshun or nothn. speculy no redin or wrtng learng.

Not in California, no. The state is near the bottom of education rankings, along with Washington DC.