Stanford Professor: Big Labor is why years & $billions have failed to fix Education

[bluelightnintheone]

I used to think unions could "reform", but I've,since, learned what a stupid thought that was.

As far as getting the kids out of the public school system, OMG, I have seen kids leave public school and go into private school and actually enjoy learning, and everything seems to suddenly come together. Somehow the private schools seem to instill self value in them and they want knowledge, and they don't get stuck with crappy teachers either.

[mickrussom]

The unions are dangerous, seditious, illegal because they are a mafia, organized crime. They are criminals and right to work is the MINIMUM solution, but we must go further, we must use the RICO and racketeering laws that were used against the mafia to nail these thieves, cheats and seditious traitors in their criminal acts.

[iganzabissassa]

The laws he mentions (e.g. Taft-Hartley) were designed to promote collective bargaining at the expense of the rank and file in unions. Newly centralized union bureaucracies were brought closer to management for "labor peace". The strike was replaced with collective bargaining. History shows that collective bargaining, while worth defending, has largely been a tool to piss away worker gains.

Now neoliberals want to eliminate even collective bargaining, and eventually unions themselves.

[Right2WorkCommittee]

@iganzabissassa please get your facts right before you comment. Taft-Hartley weakly tried to fix the Wagoner Act that forced people to pay fess against their will. "Labor Peace" is like extortion where union bosses demand employers to force their employees to pay fees to union bosses or there will be violence and mayhem. There should be "peace" with paying off some union boss by employees.

[iganzabissassa]

@Right2WorkCommittee

The Taft-Hartley bill was largely written by business representatives. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), representing 16,500 corporations controlling billions of dollars in assets, boasted that it had spent millions of dollars to get it passed by Congress.[xxiii] In short, the goal of the bill was to restrain mass strikes, ensure management control over production, and to prevent rivalries within unions from leading to excessive demands on management.

[iganzabissassa]

@Right2WorkCommittee

[Second part of response]

As George Lipsitz puts it, business realized that “labor peace could be won only by restraining the rank and file and by strengthening the institutional power of trade unions. The Taft-Hartley law attempted to achieve both of those objectives.”

See George Lipsitz _Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s_.

Lipsitz is one of the leading labor scholars in the U.S.

[iganzabissassa]

Consider which "big interests" back Terry Moe. We see far Right organizations backing him with hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote these anti-union positions, which I'm sure he really believes. Look up Media Transparency and at their site search Terry Moe. You'll find $300,000 in grants for him from The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. At the same site enter this foundation as a search to see just how extreme they are.

[rdsathene]

Reactionary Moe is an organ of Stanford's extreme right-wing think tank, the Hoover Institution. His sole concern is opening up public education to the market so he and his backers can make a financial killing and force feed their Ayn Rand fantasy curriculum. Moe's research is almost as suspect as his politics.

[jcruenv]

@rdsathene And yet, you don't refute a single assertion of fact in his talk and only attack him. You also probably feel you should be listened to...

[amcent2]

@rdsathene you are a total liar and scumbag. the results speak for themselves. the students are the ones getting screwed.

[mickrussom]

@rdsathene you seditious traitorous rats are through. We are done being your hostage, commie. Get ready for more.

[antidoteco]

great message  !

[DerJungeMiroslav]

Check out 2:33, looks like some of these unionized teachers need to go back to school themselves.

[JTHELSTROM]

Unions have completely ruined the school system in my state. Once we got our kids out of the unionized public school system, and into a non-union charter school, their grades went through the roof almost instantly.

[doggy8kitty]

No doubt this Stanford Professor will be labeled "racist old white man" because the last thing a pigressive wants to hear is the other side of the story.

Great vid ConcernedEducators.