: About Me

Teacher unions are, unquestionably, the bane of our public education system. Unlike other unions, teacher unions proclaim that their efforts are, in large part, on behalf of "the children" as opposed to only their dues-paying constituents. Unions came into existence to protect and assure fair compensation to a vulnerable workforce at the mercy of unscrupulous employers. Initially, unions represented workers in manual labor-intensive jobs such as mining and manufacturing where unsafe conditions were killing people and child labor was standard practice. The premise was simple. For a fee (due...