Taxpayers sink over $230 million on salaries and benefits for district employees, and it’s still not enough to keep classrooms open for children. Never mind the fact that it is illegal for teachers to walk out in Massachusetts. Unelected union bosses demand more concessions from local government, and the laws be damned.
The Superintendent can hem and haw about being “unsure of how school days will be made up,” because it isn’t about school days, students, or academic achievement. It never is. It is about teacher unions maintaining a stranglehold on the education establishment, and using children as a point of leverage to grasp for even more.
Any state that gives in to public sector unions is asking for this kind of mistreatment. Public employee unions always end up working against the best interests of the taxpayers.
Lest you think this is some “right wing talking point,” consider FDR’s indictment of striking by public sector unions:
“I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable.”