Kansas casts eye on teachers' unions

[lastlib]

X-post from Kansas forum

More Brownbackistan/Kochtopia shenanigans:

http://www.kansascity.com/2013/03/06/4104938/kansas-casts-eye-on-teachers-unions.html

The battle over teachers unions has marched its way across the country. Ohio. Michigan. Wisconsin. Idaho. And now it’s in Kansas, greeted by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and his conservative allies in the Legislature.

Lawmakers are moving to undercut the tenuous power of teachers unions by barring them from using voluntary paycheck deductions for politics.

And they’re going after teachers’ ability to bargain collectively on key issues — hoping to give cash-strapped school districts new flexibility and leverage in contract talks.

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One more step by the 1%/Koch brothers to make life harder for the 99% in the working class, and to make them more dependent and subservient to their corporate masters. Collective bargaining is a First Amendment right! It should never be limited to the whims of the legislature. This will make it harder to get good teachers, and the end result will be less-educated children--which fits into the long-term plan of the billionaires.

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[mike_c]

1. we've just defeated a similar attempt in California for the umpteenth time....

Fuckers just keep coming back and trying again, at least once a decade or so, and they refine their lies and get better at it each time. Defeating anti-worker legislation is a never ending labor battle. Best wishes to my brothers and sisters in Kansas. Solidarity!

[HiPointDem]

2. that's exactly what they did with charter schools in washington. 3 times we turned it down and

they just kept putting it up, over and over again.

with money, all things are possible. it makes you see how much of a joke this 'democracy' really can be.

[HereSince1628]

3. Investors must have the right to organize into corporations but workers must not

have similar rights to organize.

What part of establishing and maintaining power asymmetry in favor of Capital do we NOT understand?

This is a Capitalist nation based on collective entrepreneurship, a nation of incorporated MAKERS

It is not a nation of and for the Workers it is not a nation of organized TAKERS!

Do you not see the difference between Sovietism and America?

Or so says my Republican sibling.