NEA General Counsel Bob Chanin Says Farewell

[GenoTheBrony]

I was brought here by Ghost from True Capitalist Radio.

[SonicZombiez]

And they actually admitted this...screw the NEA. More people need to see this

[davidnco1]

The NEA is worthless

[gpsthree]

who is the woman at 1:12?

[WhatCanIsay100]

The more bail outs there is the dollar becomes worthless!!

[tstetler]

NEA are just another political arm

[netpropheting]

How many teachers have been fired in NYC in the last severl years? 3! That is the power of the teacher's unions - who cares about the kids!! It is all about the benefits given to teachers who are accounable to no one. Damn the parents!

Even the liberal NY Times recognizes the problem if you dont:

[forestgrove4862]

Some people "donate" their pay, those who don't donate are "forced" to donate. You have to pay one way or the other, even if you don't agree with the policies of the union.

[4SquareHI]

@forestgrove4862

That's the whole point that Scott Walker is trying to make in Wisconsin. Now that is real worker's rights. The right to choose to belong to a union or not.

[vidguy007]

If you have to lie to make your point, are you really making your point?

[Gfunk0717]

@mikemustrd - do you not understand what he's saying? He "said" they want to close achievement gaps, blah, blah, but NOT at the expense of losing their employee "rights". Are they in the Constitution? No! They are "deals" between the unions and the politicians that got BIG money for their elections. It's basically like a kick-back. This dude said they get 100's of millions in dues and that goes to Dem. political campaigns. Who's WINNING? Duh? Not the kids or the majority of the tax payers.

[mikemustrd]

did you stop watching before this part: "this is not to say that closing the achievement gap, preventing dropouts, improving the quality of teachers and alike are unimporant or inappropriate. To the contrary - these are the goals that guide the work we do. But they need not be achieved at the espense of due process, employee rights and collective bargaining."

[RazzMcTazz]

Teachers benefit from the union's extortionary tactics at the expense of children. That is an undeniable fact. On average, including benefits like pensions & health care, teachers make more than computer programmers, yet only work ~9 months/yr & fewer hours, with practically guaranteed raises & job security. That's why it's so hard to get a job as a teacher! Why shouldn't teachers be like programmers? If you're good you get a raise & keep your job. If not, you get no raise or get fired.

[VulcanForge]

Be sure to post a video whenever those teacher union goons in Canada, Finland, Korea, and Japan are no longer the best education systems in the world. And another one whenever Sweden stops its absolute freefall from top 10 to bottom 10 among OECD countries, thanks to its private voucher program.

[VulcanForge]

Be sure to post a video whenever those teacher union goons in Canada, Finland, Korea, and Japan are no longer the best education systems in the world. And another one whenever Sweden stops its absolute freefall from top 10 to bottom 10 among OECD countries, thanks to its private voucher program.

[AnglicanXn]

"Protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees" My wife is a teacher, and she needs protection from 35 student classes and some other potential handicaps to teaching - but she does not need left-wing political advocates masquerading as concerned teachers.

[russkie69]

Protecting workers rights is pretty scary stuff, huh?

[XkonastephenX]

@wjfitz - You think money is a "weapon of change". Conservatives see money as a liquid means of exchanging goods and services produced by work and valued by individuals with the freedom to set their own goals and values. Unions are parasites, coercively taking what others have produced and turning it into "weapons of change" to warp society according to their corrupt fever-vision. Without unions or state meddling, the market would correct injustices more efficiently and effectively.

[XkonastephenX]

If the NEA are such effective advocates, their work should stand on its own merit and they shouldn't have to bully and coerce teachers into paying dues. Whether or not to join the union should be completely at the discretion of teachers and should not be made a condition of employment. Nor should benefits extended by school boards be extended only to union members. The NEA is the number one cause of failing schools across America. Declaw the NEA!

[1VoiceOfReazon]

@XkonastephenX Choosing to join any union should be completely at the discretion of the employee, & union bosses should not be allowed to use union dues to support politicians. Such use should either be prescribed by individual union members (both the amounts & the politicians) or, lest the union bosses be tempted to cheat, why not just bar unions from political donations & let the individual members support the politicians they want to, on their own. That sounds a lot like “freedom” to me.

[Conservative0patriot]

we pay taxes for our children to get a good teacher in every class room if they cant live at the same level as the middle class who all the their money comes from well let just stop using all unions hell i might stop roofing and teach imagine how much money could be made if the hundreds of millions of dollars that the unions suck out of these dummies was given to smart people who actually have a brain and think on their own none union is always more productive than union and government GREEDLAZY

[mordot13]

@Conservative0patriot well said..i've worked around unions most of my life and saw firsthand the mindset of the few who ruined it for the many. Thier "untouchable" mentality. Maybe if the unions would have only weeded out their slackers then things could and would be viewed differently now.

[SickBoyZap5]

ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED!! HE'S TELLING THE UNION MEMBERS THAT THEIR WILLINGNESS TO PAY DUES IS THE REASON THEY HAVE POWER TO DEMAND BETTER CONDITIONS!

The sad thing is even he realizes that "IT"S NOT BECAUSE THEY CARE FOR CHILDREN" THAT THEY HAVE POWER! BECAUSE YOU FUCKING RETARDS DON"T GIVE THEM ANY CREDIT FOR THAT!

IT'S ONLY THROUGH THE HARD SACRIFICE THAT MEMBERS MAKE THAT THEY HAVE "THE POWER" TO DEMAND BETTER CONDITIONS!

This is exactly why the NeoCons want you STUPID!!!

[chgosatrap]

@SickBoyZap5

Sb my brother, screaming at dummies does not work. The neocons would twist the Christmas story into a story of child neglect.

[SickBoyZap5]

@chgosatrap

EL OH EL! Sad, but true my friend! Sad, but true,,,

[classicallady]

@SickBoyZap5 Well said my friend......but fundies haven't got a brain of their own...

[mordot13]

@SickBoyZap5 how does donating 10% of your pay when your paid 30% above the national average (with a benny pkg that equals or exceeds the feds) count as sacrificing?

[SickBoyZap5]

@mordot13

Dues are a Sacrifice, how do you not understand that?!

Secondly, If we are to accept your Rush Limbaugh stats, your point is that:

Because Unions have been systematically destroyed in the private sector and the middle class has shriveled since 1981, SO LETS DESTROY PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS ALSO!

Why don't we go back to those wonderful days of the Fonz and the Cunnighams! You know the Happy Days!

WHEN UNIONS WERE @ THEIR PEAK AND THE WEALTHY PAID A 51% TAX!

[SickBoyZap5]

@mordot13

You NeoCons are creating a REVERSE FRENCH REVOLUTION! You are their "Sans Culottes"!

But instead of overthrowing the tyranny of the Aristocracy you are fighting to put them back on the throne!

Conservatives have ALWAYS BEEN WRONG!

AT IT'S BIRTH THIS NATION HAD TO FIGHT YOU 'CON'-SERVATIVES!

YOU TRAITORS FOUGHT AGAINST THE PATRIOTS IN FAVOR OF THE MONARCHY AS LOYALISTS! THIS NATION DEFEATED YOU BEFORE, AND WILL DEFEAT YOU AGAIN!

[kidyubyub]

@SickBoyZap5 Always? Nice. I love when people use blanket statements or words.

[mordot13]

@SickBoyZap5 Wrong again you NeoLiberal. We're all fighting to put back up a Republic. All I was saying (earlier post) was how unjust it was to take taxpayer dollars for undeserved/unequal excesive labor rates that requires a percentage of it back for protection from substandard performance levels. Why can't you face the fact that we have now outgrown the usefulness of unions. they are now the traitors, partly responsible for the jobs lost to overseas. Anybody rich attending public schools?

[LaurenBerns]

@ozshark That is simply not what he is saying. Listen again. He says the thing that "makes them effective advocates" is their political clout. And, of course, that is what makes them effective. Caring about kids doesn't make them effective because their political opponents ALSO think they are doing for the kids.

[tamarasarahsue]

Really tell me how crappy it is...enlighten me please!

[tamarasarahsue]

You all realize that this is not the entire speech right? That there was more to the speech that just this. He had already talked about how caring just for the kids was not enough...that there needed to be more. You all need to look up all the things the NEA has initiated for education that benefitted the children of the U.S. You people seriously are manipulated by the media so easily. You believe everything you here. I just saw the commericial and researched it first. WOW is right.

[Astrozombie427]

@tamarasarahsue \

He made it clear, it cannot be spun. They are in it for their own purpose, the customer (the children) come second. It is quite clear that unions are no more than self interest big business.

[SickBoyZap5]

@Astrozombie427

Let me put it in Crayon for you:

He's thanking Union members and telling them that the 'FACT' that they care for children and have great ideas, etc. IS NOT THE REASON THAT THEY ARE EFFECTIVE ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE!

He realizes that the 'FACT' that care for children does nothing with people like YOU! It's the fact that the Union members in that room sacrifice dues that they are able to effect possitive change!

Ask yourself this....why does your side have to lie?

[rinkichamkar]

What a bastard ! And the stupid morons in the audience are actually giving him a standing ovation.

[DSBac]

And people wonder why our public education system is so crappy.

[tacitgreen]

So now we can portray strong-arming if not outright forcing both membership AND the payment of dues as people who are "willingly paying" a union to "protect" them?

(CACKLE)

Absolutely incredible.

[LaurenBerns]

What exactly is wrong with he says? Listen very carefully. He says NEA is an EFFECTIVE ADVOCATE because it has political power. That is obviously true and that is the POINT of any union: to allow employees to have enough power "collectively," to challenge the power of the money elites (big business and the very rich).

[rinkichamkar]

@LaurenBerns,

,

What the fudge do teaachers and teaching have to do with "big business", "The rich" ... and we are not discussing ANY union. Just public sector ones. And where the fudge do rich "fat cats" come into the picture where public unions (specially teacher unions) are concerned ?

[LaurenBerns]

@rinkichamkar Fair enough. I was referring to unions, in general, but even public sector unions (especially where civil service protections are not in place) deal with entities much more powerful then themselves (i.e. their government employers). Now, there are reasons to be careful that public sector unions are bargaining with tough advocates for the government interests. We (citizens) really don't want someone who is a pushover who'll acquiesce to every union demand.

[rinkichamkar]

@LaurenBerns,

Unions in general are NOT the issue. Workers have a right to organize and demand whatever they want (the moon, more money, or beer at work). IN case of the private sector, the very basis that the union movement rose is obvious. i.e. there is a very rich set of guys at the top who will probably be exploting them (as far-fethched as that may sound in the US). But in the public sector this is ridiculous. How can a government such as the US, be exploiting its workforce ?

[ozshark]

@LaurenBerns

And he is basically saying unions only care about themselves. Shall we even look at how completely crappy out public education is. It is horrible, completely horrible. So hey he was right the NEA only cares about themselves and money and power not about kids.

[chgosatrap]

@ozshark

The union is not supposed to be for the children. The teachers are there for the children. Unions are for workers. The teachers are the workers. The union cares about the working conditions.

[SickBoyZap5]

@ozshark

Listen to it again! He's saying that the Union dues of members, like the people in that room, are the reason they are able to effect positive change, not because of the "FACT" that they care about children or that they have good ideas, etc.

[wjfitz]

@mpolloc & theunbubba.

All this fuss over an NEA Lawyer who retired almost three years ago!

He was being applauded for his service, by people who knew him, and knew how he talked, & knew how to interpret his words.

My take? I think he was saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. To be idealistic, in this country, it takes more than good intentions & dedication. It takes MONEY & POWER! And I think it's been proven, time and time again, that that's the winning formula.

[rinkichamkar]

@wjfitz,

You forgot to add - "But only where Democrats are in power". I am pretty darn sure, yo uwould have screamed bloody murder if Rove had said the same thing.

[wjfitz]

@rinkichamkar You're serious about that? If Rove had said the same thing, it would have been in an entirely different context on a subject other than education. You're pretty much saying that only republicans have the right to wield money as a weapon of change. The pendulum swings both ways dude.

[Liberty4Ever]

I guess that finally explains to me why in the 42 years since I graduated from high school, our country has steadily paid more for education while we slipped farther and farther behind the rest of the world in every important measurement of educational achievement.

Teacher's unions have earned an F.



[No1Rides4Free]

If you want more jobs in America and more "Made in America" products then get these glutinous parasite unions out of the loop. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF OUR JOBS MOVING OUT OF THE USA ! GET THESE LEACHES OUT OF THE PICTURE AND WATCH PRICES DROP AND AMERICAN JOBS INCREASE. STAND ON YOUR OWN 2 FEET AND MAKE YOUR OWN DEALS. DON'T PAY THESE PARASITES TO LEACH OFF OF YOU AND THE AMERICAN CONSUMER.THESE PARASITES ARE CLOSE TO KILLING THE HOST,,IF THEY DO,,,THEN WHERE WILL YOU PEOPLE BE?!

[mpolloc]

This video completely distorts what he said -- he's talking about why the union has been influential. Their concern for children doesn't make them influential, their numbers, their collective bargaining, their political power make them influential. Caring for children and having good ideas doesn't get you anything, if you don't have power. That's not the same as saying the NEA doesn't have good ideas and care about children. If you can't understand the difference, perhaps you need remedial work.

[theunbubba]

@mpolloc

How the hell do you distort verbatim speech aired in it's entirety?

You need to stop getting your news from unicorns.

[mpolloc]

@theunbubba But it isn't aired in its entirety in this clip. That was my point: it is a short excerpt from a much longer speech, and if the clip had begun even a minute earlier, it would be clear that he wasn't saying that they didn't care about children or have any good ideas. He was saying that those things weren't want gave them the power do anything about their ideas or their concern for children.

[theunbubba]

@mpolloc Yeah I'll bet you question those unnamed sources the liberal networks always use to slander conservatives too don't you?

Did you question the "reconstructed ' documents dan Rather tried to use to destroy George Bush?

These are the mans own words. Not some backdoor innuendo like the libtard press uses.

[dacmiller]

Is anyone really suprised? Really? Power is what it is all about.

[rickabone]

It's pretty hard to not see that you are taking this out of context and if you don't see that, then you are wearing Koch Brother glasses!

[NJECPAC]

He said what he said in plain english.

It is pretty hard to take those words out of context

[NJECPAC]

Union Bosses are the problem not the individual teachers that really do care about the children and their careers. Unfortunately, states such as NJ that are not right to work states deny rights to workers day in an day out that would choose not to belong to the union and force them to be the pawns that line the pockets of these fat cat union bosses. But they are no more to blame than the public officials that agree to the unsustainable contract benefits.

[Beretta1953]

Yep we can close the gap by dumbing everyone down.... and voila no gap..

[klrdotorg]

That says it all. Unions suck.

[vidguy007]

@klrdotorg I came here to find the rest of the quote. Please note that the Crossroad ad leaves out as few words at the beginning that changes the meaning.

We all believe "Unions suck." I need to go down to the fish market and look at the old photos of the child labor they had at one time and remember who it was that fought to keep child labor.

They are the same side that is fighting unions now, and doing a very good job.

Your comment shows how effective O'Keefe and Crossraods are.

[vidguy007]

I came here to hear the entire quote. Quite different in meaning from the Crossroads ad. This is how O'Keefe and Breitbart operate, and it works very well.

[No1Rides4Free]

This arrogant bastards shit is headed south faster than shit threw a goose ! SOMEBODY NEEDS TO BEAT THIS THIEVING BASTARD WITHIN AN INCH OF HIS LIFE WITH A TIRE TOOL AND SHIP HIS ASS OFF TO ANGOLA FEDERAL PRISON TO BUNK WITH BUBBA "WOODY"

[kahrytan]

Union Suck.

Under Title VII of Civil Rights Act, an employee is protected from paying union dues where he holds a sincere religious belief against unions or paying union dues. The employee is protected from paying union dues by following a few simple guidelines. choosecharityDOTorg

[dbstooge]

Little lisping communist fucking faggot

[WelfareRobot]

You know what, at least he was being honest. I have a serious problem with intellectual dishonesty (see: feminists for example). This guy is not hiding behind the "think of the children" extortion tactics that most unions will use, so good on him for that, at least. Of course, he's still an overall scumbag, just a little less of a scumbag for having a little integrity on this one occasion.

[adamgermanis1]

And i am plenty prepared for the reel world. I was ready freshman year in high school.  Oh and one of my professions now is an educator.

[adamgermanis1]

love teachers, hate cry babies. plenty of people pay out of pocket for work related purchases. And you are not fooling anyone with the before and after school meetings. A lot of teachers do not work as many hours as other professions. Besides when you are getting paid over 100 grand a year then don't whine about meetings and some school supplies purchases. You'd have more money if you didn't have to pay union dues. I liked some of my teachers I've had and still have occasionally.

[VigilantOutlaw]

Unions don't serve the same purpose today as they did when they first organized. Today they claim it's still for workers rights, but we (the non-sheeple) know better!

[DAVN121]

As a third generation of a family of teachers, who have been in unions, I ask you how else you keep teachers motivated during such trying jobs and in such trying times. The problem with the economy isn't that pensions aren't given enough money from teachers and other unions. These pensions were funded by wall street, which sold bad bonds to the pension funds and caused them to collapse. Do your homework before blaming unions for their pensions.

[adamgermanis1]

and how much do you make for 5 hours a day and maybe 8 months out of the year, without any repercussions for being a crappy employee and educator because you have tenure. All the babies in Wisconsin are whining about how much the bill will effect their over 100 thousand a year wages......boooooo hoooooo

[DAVN121]

First of all, Wisconsin teachers make more like 81,000$ annually including benefits. Second of all, when compared with the average private sector salary(58,000$), most figures fail to acknowledge that teachers have a higher education than most private sector workers which always leads to a higher annual salary overall. Finally, Wisconsin teachers actually make 4.8% less than comparative private sector workers in total compensation.

[adamgermanis1]

i said they make over 100,000 total, and most teachers are not higher educated then private sectors. And are you comparing private schools to public when you say teachers have an higher education? If so then i would disagree with the comment that most teachers have a higher level of education then the private sector.

[adamgermanis1]

And if they make less they deserve it like i said before, they barely do any work for the amount of compensation. Having to take state or federally required further education courses once a year, maybe three college level credits, doesn't count as putting forward effort if it is mandatory, nor does it count for saying they have a higher education.

[DAVN121]

@adamgermanis1 And you say they do barely any work? Yes, attending meetings after and before school hours, often buying supplies for classrooms themselves, having the responsiblity of preparing our children to be workers of tomorrow... yeah teachers don't do shit. Please, just admit you hate teachers in general and stop pretending like they're greedy. You probably think they failed to prepare you for the world, apparently they did.

[adamgermanis1]

You know how many public and private sector jobs require constant and further education yearly? a lot.... and those employees don't demand to be compensated. It's part of being an adult and having the opportunity, and privilege.....not right...... to have a job. 

[DAVN121]

@adamgermanis1 Why don't you go to Politifact(dot)com and look up Eric Bolling February 21st where a detailed comparison and analysis of teacher salaries to private sector salaries is made.

Or do you just want to admit that you hate teachers and unions with a biased and that no matter what the facts are you'll always hate them?

[jjnemoiii]

shopman516, try not to put so many facts in your next reply.

[shopman516]

Typical disingenuity from those traitors who call themselves "conservatives". Very reminiscent of Breitbart's editing style of "Let's take only the parts we want people to hear because our philosophy in antithetical to the health and welfare of the Republic. We'll take this out of context and all of the victims of Reagan's "let's-defund-public-education­-so-thy're-undereducated-and-e­asily-manipulated" program will get all pissed off about it." You cretins deserve these traitors. America doesn't.

[lbrewer42]

Every one of these sick minded communist-puppets should be deported to a country having their own anti-American ideals rather than being aloud to corrupt our freedoms and corrupt our innocent children with their pro-communist, freedom killing ideals.

[themunz126]

At least the scumbag is honest. Screw everyone BUT the union .. it's not about the kids .. it is about the power. The money.

And people actually SUPPORT this knowingly and willingly?

Shameful .. just shameful

[dkkght46]

The NEA to double union dues, i believe Article 10 and Article 11 of the Constitution and bylaws it states “it is AOK with us if you donate our money for whatever you like and if you need more just take it and don’t worry”…or something like that. Some civics teacher in HS swore there was anyway…I think, maybe.

[bette1122]

so why is the public so stupid to be fooled and lead around by these unions

[ctminarchist]

Government unions, shoving their interest down your throats! Fuck yeah!

[Lipsnx4u]

Out of the mouths of suckers... who could say it better than they themselves.

[MaggieSullivan60]

The kids don't even matter to the teachers union - only the money does.

[animlnitr8]

i've seen and heard all i need...i will NOT be sending my child to the PUBLIC DUMMY FACTORY so he can become a GOOD LITTLE SHEEPLE ZOMBIE.

[SouthSideIronWorks]

No Person Has Ever Joined a Union With the Intent Of Becoming an Exceptional Employee.

[usactionnewsdotcom]

Know more, read: "Wisconsin passes bill to protect the people from unions"

"Like a Mafia Don, Dem lawmaker tells unions ‘Get a little bloody when necessary’"

"Union agenda is Obama’s agenda" and "Teachers union promotes Alinsky radicals guide to revolution"

[KiniAlohaGuy]

THIS IS UNION HATE AGAINST THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE.

Stop this before Union Servitude. The Future Slavery.

[allenw2007]

Next it will be China and Mexico teaching our children. Serves the greedy American people right. What a sham!! Eventually we won't have any jobs at all. Thanks unions for causing the downfall of America. You are not needed any longer. Please go away!

[ladylordess]

THIS IS WEAR YOUR UNION DOLLARS GO!!!!!!! STOP THE POWER BEFORE IT DESTROYS AMERICA.

[dfgivens]

What an arogant SOB! If the government did it's job regulating FAIRLY & CORRECTLY, we wouldn't even have Unions. They'd be obsolete. The waste is unbelieveable.

[VonKaNon]

Twist it however you want, but I still come to the same conclusion: UNIONS PROMOTE AND PROTECT MEDIOCRITY.

[greatscott59]

3.2 million x $1000= $3,200,000,000. That's right, that's 3.2 billion dollars at their disposal. And that's only 1 union. Why do the Teachers not can the Unions that claim to represent them, elect their own negotiator's and bargain themslves? They would get better pay and pocket the $1000 dollars and, make the education system better.

The public education system is a racket designed to extort millions of dollars from the taxpayers and hold our children hostage. I voted for Walker!

[rfoxden]

willing or forced???

[poldiddy]

What a scumbag. Listening to this cracker, you'd think the primary goal of education is to pay off the adults and not educating the students. It's tax dollars he's demanding!

[thepogue]

wow...

[Lipsnx4u]

And this is why anyone with a brain knows the first lie is... it's for the children. And this is why so many children cannot even read effectively to function in society because these greedy arses really don't possess the skills to teach. No surprise that they are in the streets ready to shed blood.

[Duketheflyingdog]

Try good riddance - what a pathetic individual , power and union bennies first before the kids - the WI teachers can kiss my a**

[attguy98]

What it's all about.

[sjohn274]

Trust me, we know you don't care about the children nor do you have a vision for a great public school for every child. Couldn't have said it better myself.

[thehumanbeanAZ]

NEA Isn't About Children, It's About Power and Greed...Don't take my word for it. Hear it from former General Counsel Bob Chanin, who put in 41 years with America's most overgrown union, the National Education Association:

The audience consisted of NEA members at an annual meeting. Judging by their enthusiastic applause, they didn't mind having the most unflattering stereotypes of union goons affirmed as truth.

[KiniAlohaGuy]

It's all about Power. Education is secondary. Money and Power.

[PushBackNow]

Employee rights and collective bargaining come before the kids, he said it "That is simply too high a price to pay" God bless and protect Scott Walker and shine Your light on the truth about these power hungry unions whose prime directive is money and power. We're glad this two faced clown bailed. Good fricken riddance!

[thinkgman]

@ 0:33 Some pay dues to protect their rights to rip off the taxpayers, keep older, bad teacher from being fired, and promote Democratic candidate's campaigns in exchange for sweetheart pay and benefit deals in return, it is not because they [purportedly] care about children. All pay because they have to. Give me a break.

[PushBackNow]

@thinkgman NEA needs to GO DOWN!

[TheBaglady2]

They organize against us.. to take money out of our pockets to put it into their own. And the results? According to Organization for Education Cooperation and Development [International]:

U.S. teachers starting salaries rank #3 of 34 participating countries;

U.S. student drop out rate 22%;

U.S. student performance on international testing rank #17 in reading, #23 in math & #30 in science;

U.S. cost of education are double all but 2 countries].

[TheBaglady2]

@TheBaglady2

Fire those who are protesting against the American taxpayers. There are plenty of unemployed Americans who would love those jobs/benefits...and would do a better job. Because these "professional" teachers (or professional union shakedown artists) are FAILING our children miserably. And picking our pockets.

[DumpTown]

"Hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year." And the American public education system continues its unidirectional slide into the toilet.

What a load of morally bankrupt crap. What more does anyone need to know?

[drusilly2004]

Talk about greed.

[RememberDeath2112]

this is why i pay an extra $300 per month to send my kid to a catholic school (and i'm agnostic!!!!). i'd home school him if i could. our kids rank well behind too many countries for these teachers to tell me i'm not paying them enough. they don't deserve anymore than what they get and what they get is too much. however, they are being strangled by the fed dept of edu who is more interested in producing good little voters instead of good little thinkers.

[RedDeadAustin]

The Hell with the greedy teachers and their unions. I would trust a pimp over a liberal teacher. With a pimp, what you see is what you get. With a teacher, they are wolves in sheep's clothing and are Hell-bent and determined to indoctrinate your kids with Marxist/ Progressive ideology. Their goal is to make your kids hate their country, their parents (if White), their faith, and the President as long as it's not Obama. Hey teachers! Shove your worthless degrees up your ass.

[U2ForNow]

That pretty much explains why our educations is F'ed up. Hey union people, thanks for giving out condoms to our 1st graders. Power be upon you.

[holocaustexpert]

I think the holocaust union is way too powerful in America. After all, the holocaust is a big giant hoax, and even the most vocal so called auschwitz survivor does not even have a tattoo. Scam artists.

[ed1642]

All government unions should be banned. The idea that government workers need protection from guess who?? THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, is ridiculous. remember, teachers are government employees. Ban government unions.

[bytorsnow]

Only a lying scumbag of a union thug attorney could actually be *proud* to say the things this guy did. And as for the "teachers" applauding those comments?

Well, lets just say there aren't enough short ropes or tall trees.

[Swiftee4utube]

Anyone think this scumbag sent his own kids to a public school?

Not a chance in hell.

These low lives preen and prance on the bodies of the hundreds of thousands of kids they have sent out to the streets unable to read or write. They represent the lowest echelon of human beings: They prey on children.

[Luka1410]

what a friggin scumbag. Wait, a union scumbag? I repeat myself.

[Firewind451]

Finally they admit what their opponents have been saying all along.

[bobjon38]

So the NEA is about power not education.

WOW.

[michaelsmith2911]

Btw someone said get rid of the doe, which would be playing right into the hands of creeps like this. Local control may sound good, but education is a national issue and needs coordination at the highest levels to spur competition among our schools. With local newspapers and democracy effectively dying at a local level these debates will take on an even more national flavor. Even republicans like Gingrich realize this.

[michaelsmith2911]

Wow, that's creepy. I almost expected him to sprout horns and go mwuahahahaha!! Classic! No wonder Dems are throwing these guys under the bus!

[mnvacation]

I wanted to add one more thing, just to make sure my words are clear, this is NOT about teachers. There are plenty of good teachers. This is about the failed corrupt system that we have in place under the guise of education.

The NEA and government run education is a experiment that needs to end.

Go check out the Alliance for the Separation of School & State for more information.

[OenghusLok]

@mnvacation Yeah. These are the same douche bags that mock home schoolers.

[mnvacation]

And this surprises people how?

This has been going on for years. We the people, or should I say we the sheeple, have followed along, towing the company line of "it's for the children."

Well no more. The line in the sand is drawn. My kids are no longer part of our government's failed experiment.

I suggest you get your kids out too, before it's too late.

[Gillz17]

Speak out against the teacher's unions. Bring this up at school board meetings. Use it to run for school board.

ANY teacher who says the additional funds are "for the children" bring this up to them.

It is clear from the union (NEA) themselves, in their own words, that the teachers and their union are first NOT the children.

PLEASE, speak out against out of control government spending. PLEASE use this against them. PLEASE run for school board positions and keep the union in check.

[Scarlette0hara]

Unions first, teachers second and kids get whatever's left. They are just the pawns used to line the pockets of Union fat cats. To add insult to injury, their parents and all tax payers fund this corruption.

[praeeo]

@Scarlette0hara Exactly! At least it put it out there in the order they serve.... $/Unions/Teachers then kids!

[rickabone]

Clearly taken out of context.

[chris19046]

@rickabone clearly you are in the NEA union. Are you stupid how is taken out of context. What context do you need to understand this? oh wait you went to public schools didn't you?

[rickabone]

@chris19046 clearly you are an idiot that jumps to conclusions just as you did with this video. I am not a teacher nor a member of the NEA and my education was a mix of public an private schools. My point was that this is the end of his speech... His closing point, where he had already given praise to and said what he had to say about the benefits of creative ideas, caring about children and the merits of their positions, but was 'rallying the troops' to help garner more support.

[rickabone]

Respond to this video... And you have clearly taken that out of context.

[2012vote]

@rickabone Out of context you cant be that ignorant. Watch the whole video this was very much in context. The NEA is nothing more then a political slush fund for the left and they use my tax dollars for it. They both sleep together. You get votes for me and I will get bigger benefits and more money for you. It was a nice gig but the jig is up. The nea has done nothing to improve education all they do do is push the liberal agenda and that is a shame for the kids and this country.

[PoliticsReligionSex]

@2012vote I did watch the entire video, and says very clearly: "It's not because we care about children, it's about power." Unions want to rule everything. And kudos to them, they have become quite successful in states like CA, NY, NJ, MI.

[Dellameow]

All the stupid sheep who follow this idiot and pay him.

[anarchteacher]

So it's not about the children or their well-being.?

It's always been about raw naked power, Mr. NEA union mouthpiece.

As the great historian Lord Acton said long ago -- "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

That should be inscribed on the granite slab headstone of the last standing compulsory, tax-funded government school as millions of parents hasten to abandon this monstrosity which was tragically flawed and woefully corrupt from its inception.

[landasn]

Willing to pay you? Many, Teachers are FORCED to pay you. Then you turn around and DO a very poor job of representing your clients. Especially, when you push political agendas that are contrary to 70%+ of your membership.

Down with the NEA. No Government should not be able to force you to be a member of any organization as a requirement for empoyment.

[jeffmagic32]

this is why the average teacher is so incompetent.

[miazagora]

Don't let the door hit ya', Chanin. May you receive in life what you gave.

[behaack]

Raw political power is what animates the NEA. You heard it hear first folks. Its all about the interests of the union members and to hell with the children they are supposed to teach..

[yoyosweetiepie]

I know plenty of public school teachers who HATE the NEA. I think MANY many teachers would love to see the NEA sunk. In many states, teachers are forced to join the NEA.

[yoyosweetiepie]

I hope it causes the NEA and other liberal organizations to shake in their boots and sh*t in their pants as soon as middle America gets a hold of the POWER the libtards are wielding so irresponsibly at the moment. . . And to think, they hold our youth and small children under their power and brag about it. I'm outraged.

[tubeteyed]

Simply disgusting. If you love your children, get them out of public school!

[banter2345]

It's a closed shop, they have to pay those dues, Chanin, whether they believe in your warped sense of reality or not. We need to rid this country of the Education Department. Education is something that was not suppose to be federal, but state run. Time to end the federally forced liberal indoctrination centers that are "public schools".

[beau5375]

For anyone with kids in public school, this speech is no surprise, except that he states it so plainly. The admin in my kids school let me know every time I have a problem, that I really have no say in what happens.

[fstaheli]

It is astonishing that this megalomaniac would admit what he admitted. But now we know.

[jackgivens]

At least he is honest. Most scary is that everyone there seems to also believe that power and teacher rights are more important than our kids as well.

[masadainjudah]

I agree. He fails to mention the NEA illegally channeled (and to this day still force many teachers to contribute for campaigns) dues to the campaigns of Democrats. Chanin and his cronies were also caught red handed filing fraudulent income tax returns. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, you crooked old fart!

[dmfdmf1]

Like most lawyers...he's just a jerk.

[akalaurel]

Now you see why Charter schools are being closed, even though they are funded by the government. Guess the unions couldn't grab hold of the charter schools to arm-twist them into their lair.

[cosgirl45]

This is the reason that our kids are failing... nice for him to admit that the union doesn't care what's best for kids. I will only send my kids to a private or charter school, as well.

[techservant]

The NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates (for teachers) simply because of power.

I could not think of a better reason to send my child to a private or non-union school.

It isn't about the children its about power.