Activists lead assault on Tennessee Education Association

[Joanne98]

Source: Knox News

NASHVILLE -- Conservative groups are helping push the Republican legislative efforts to outlaw collective bargaining by Tennessee teachers and other bills to curb the influence of the Tennessee Education Association.

Although their numbers were dwarfed by the 200 to 300 teachers opposing the anti-bargaining bill at a hearing Wednesday, tea party activists also attended wearing stickers in support of the bill, along with leaders of Eagle Forum of Tennessee, Family Action Council of Tennessee and other groups.

In the hours leading up to the Senate Education Committee vote on SB 113, Tennessee Tea Party urged members to pressure senators "to stand firm against the teachers unions."

"We have two senators who are holding out and need some pressure applied ... Senators Rusty Crowe and Jamie Woodson," said the tea party's website. Both Crowe, R-Johnson City, and Woodson, R-Knoxville, joined in a 6-3 party-line vote to send SB 113 to the Senate floor. Approval there is expected, given the GOP's 20-13 majority.



Read more: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/feb/20/activists-lead-assault-tennessee-education-associa/

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The attack on teachers is coming from the CHRISTIANS!

HELLLLLO!

[somone]

1. We're seeing more tentacles of the Koch Bros

[ananda]

2. Some states are hopeless.

Texas for instance - collective bargaining is expressly prohibiited.

Tennessee and Oklahoma will follow suit, and probably some other states.

[plumbob]

3. Although their numbers were dwarfed by the 200 to 300 teachers opposing the anti-bargaining bill ,

the assholes still got the headline.

Nothing "conservative" about these groups - to conserve means to save, to hold for the future. These are reactionaries who are greedy short-sighted fucks.

Let the media describe them accurately, please.

[Faygo Kid]

4. It's coming from the Koch brothers. It's all orchestrated.

Ed has this exactly right: The fraudulent "tea partiers" were stage 1. Citizens United decision was stage 2, setting up these bought and paid for politicians. Busting the public employee unions is next, then banning unions altogether. The social safety net follows. I don't know who can stop these guys; they have unlimited resources.

[socialist_n_TN]

8. Yep. That's exactly what it is............

The only difference between Tennessee's attempt and Wisconsin's is that in Tennessee they're doing it piecemeal. In WI they're going for the whole enchilada at once. And you are correct in that the ULTIMATE goal is banning unions all together. We can't have the working class/poor getting upity and challenging the capitalists on working conditions.

[Omaha Steve]

5. K&R!

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. Yesterday, I saw a comment about the handful of states where teachers cannot organize compared...

to the states that rank the lowest in education. Not surprisingly, the states where it is illegal were ranked among the lowest. Does anyone know where to find that statistic? I should have bookmarked it and I didn't.

[MelissaB]

7. K&R

:kick:

[atreides1]

9. Not Christians...not really

Just religious fanatics...anti-American, under the radar traitors, whose ultimate goal is to destroy this country and force their beliefs on everyone else...

[Joanne98]

10. Fundies

[jwirr]

11. Fundies hate the public school system for a variety of reasons: they

teach evolution, etc. If they had their way our brains surgeons would be an eighth grade education!

[bertman]

12. NOT just Fundies. There are quite a few non-fundamentalists who think that

the public school system SHOULD allow prayer and teaching of religious principles. Not only that, these folks will cite the poor discipline and disruptive behavior that is tolerated in many public schools as a reason to send their kids to private church-affiliated schools. I know this from personal experience with many of these non-Fundie families.

[AndyTiedye]

13. Although their Numbers Were Dwarfed by the 200 to 300 teachers Opposing the Anti-Bargaining Bill…

…we are going to ignore them all and write a puff piece for the teabaggers, so there.

[Plucketeer]

14. What an IRONY!

What are, in essence, "unions" of dimwit, self-interested scumbags - setting back legitimate labor values to those of the 19th century! :crazy: