Teachers and their unions

David W. Kirkpatrick writing at Education News: “Perhaps the epitome of [a] union attitude came in Colorado when a package of education reform legislation was introduced in the state legislature and the Colorado Education Association promptly announced it would oppose each and every one. A very lengthy book could be written with such examples, and not exhaust them. In brief, despite claims that any critic of union procedures is anti-union and out to destroy them, the problem, for many of us, is not the existence of unions but the absence of union democracy, a lack that is virtually universal throughout the labor movement.”