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<blockquote data-quote="Buddybrown" data-source="post: 1027036" data-attributes="member: 30291"><p>Chicago Strike Shows How Unions Stifle Reform---- <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2012/09/14/chicago-strike-shows-how-unions-stifle-r" target="_blank">Chicago Strike Shows How Unions Stifle Reform - Reason.com</a> It was the latest reminder that teachers’ unions exist to expand the pay and protections of teachers, not to help “the children.”--- Unions protect their worst-performing members, which is why Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s testing plan caused so much angst.------- Even though the reforms were led by Mayor Emanuel, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, the Obama administration refused to weigh in on the matter. Obviously, a public school labor dispute is not a federal issue, but Obama rarely recognizes any constitutional limits on anything. He could have used this nationally publicized strike as one of those “teachable moments,” but we understand his silence. He didn’t want to anger the unions.---</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buddybrown, post: 1027036, member: 30291"] Chicago Strike Shows How Unions Stifle Reform---- [url=http://reason.com/archives/2012/09/14/chicago-strike-shows-how-unions-stifle-r]Chicago Strike Shows How Unions Stifle Reform - Reason.com[/url] It was the latest reminder that teachers’ unions exist to expand the pay and protections of teachers, not to help “the children.”--- Unions protect their worst-performing members, which is why Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s testing plan caused so much angst.------- Even though the reforms were led by Mayor Emanuel, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, the Obama administration refused to weigh in on the matter. Obviously, a public school labor dispute is not a federal issue, but Obama rarely recognizes any constitutional limits on anything. He could have used this nationally publicized strike as one of those “teachable moments,” but we understand his silence. He didn’t want to anger the unions.--- [/QUOTE]
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