{"id":6284,"date":"2010-08-23T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T19:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2010-08-23T12:10:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T19:10:40","slug":"obama-trying-to-make-it-up-to-teachers-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/obama-trying-to-make-it-up-to-teachers-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Trying to Make it Up to Teachers Unions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Warner Todd Huston\/The Union Label)<\/em> – Teachers unions have been mad at the president. Despite that he bends over backwards for unions and has since day one, the teachers still aren\u2019t happy. So, he\u2019s trying what Politico is calling a \u201ctruce with teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the past few weeks, President Barack Obama delivered two major speeches touting education reforms. He invited teachers to the Rose Garden and pushed the House to pass an emergency spending bill saving thousands of school jobs. This week, his education chief is traveling on a cross-country bus tour to highlight school success stories. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After all Obama has done for unions, teachers are still mad at him? It\u2019s really unbelievable, but it does show how unions are filled with ingrates, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

So what does Politico pinpoint as the \u201cboiling over\u201d point?<\/p>\n

Nationwide outrage among teachers exploded in March when both Obama and Duncan justified the mass firings of educators at a failing Rhode Island school. (Teachers ultimately kept their jobs in a concession deal.) <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it doesn\u2019t matter that Obama has eviscerated the reporting requirements for unions to report their finances to the federal government, it doesn\u2019t matter that Obama has given away billions of our tax dollars to make unions happy, and it doesn\u2019t matter that he even put a union operative in the sensitive post of head of the Dept. of Labor. The teachers unions are mad because once he expressed the idea of holding them to account for the quality of their work.<\/p>\n

This shows the extremism of unions. This shows that unions aren\u2019t in any way interested in assuring the quality of their work, nor are they interested in the democratic principles of debate and compromise, not to mention that they aren\u2019t interested in what\u2019s good for kids.<\/p>\n

As far as unions are concerned \u201cnegotiation\u201d has a skewed definition: it means we win, you lose.<\/p>\n

In the end, though, we know why Obama is attempting this rapprochement now. He wants their money for the coming elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Warner Todd Huston\/The Union Label) – Teachers unions have been mad at the president. Despite that he bends over backwards for unions and has since day one, the teachers still aren\u2019t happy. So, he\u2019s trying what Politico is calling a \u201ctruce with teachers.\u201d In the past few weeks, President Barack Obama delivered two major speeches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6285,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions\/6285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}