Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Idaho moves to strip collective bargaining rights from teachers...

Proud to call Rep. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, the bill’s House sponsor, my friend. 
BOISE - The Idaho House has given final passage to a far-reaching bill that removes most of teachers’ existing collective bargaining rights, sending the measure to the governor’s desk and marking a big win for state schools Supt. Tom Luna, who proposed the plan.  read the rest

12 comments:

  1. Wait 'til my friends from Wisconsin hear about this.

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  2. “You do remember your good teachers,” Nonini said. But...school districts face high costs when they try to remove a poor teacher. “That’s not right,”

    It's always puzzled me why so many politicians seem to find it near impossible to just state what everyone knows is the truth. Sometimes I feel as if we're all living in a Hans Christian Andersen story and we're shocked when someone has the audacity to say, "the emperor has no clothes."

    Kudos to Rep. Nonini!

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  3. Am I right to assume that Idaho union members deny the right of non-union teachers to compete with them for their teaching positions?

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  4. This is very anti-Soviet you know! ;)

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  5. Perhaps states that eliminate workers' rights should just go ahead and secede from the union.

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  6. Randy - you really need to move here.

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  7. Ken and Carol - they won't be happy

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  9. k - as far as I know all the teachers are union members. Although as a right to work state I would imagine they could hire non-union teachers (but don't quote me :-)

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  10. Justin - Bob is not to be messed with...

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