Well in Minnesota it looks like the latter
As teachers perused booths retailing titles such as “Marxist Education,” “A World to Win, the Life and Works of Karl Marx,” and “How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America,” some attendees questioned the legitimacy of the union as a representative body. As one vendor put it, “do you really think that the average joe, like a normal guy just off the street would come in here and be like yeah- this is what I think a teachers union should look like?”
A sampling of books at the convention.
Teachers on the march for open borders.
These people teach our children and you taxpayer pay for it.
Marxism, socialism, communism, has brought nothing but poverty misery, and death besides robbing people of their liberty.
Ah, but we’ve never had the right people in charge, this time we’ll get it right.
There were a few brave souls there
Exhibitors at the only 4 conservative leaning booths such as this one reported facing aggression from their fellow union members.
Fortunately not all teacher are deranged libs
But thanks to the 5-4 ruling in the Janus v. AFSCME decision by the Supreme Court more then a few teachers are breathing a sigh of relief.
“The average teacher joins a union because they want job protection from the whim of administration going AWOL,” says yet another anonymous teacher from California, afraid of union retribution should his name be distributed. Unfortunately, this idea that unions should exist for the protection of jobs has fallen by the wayside in the age of #Resist and #AbolishIce.
Fortunately, things are beginning to look up for teachers who just want to do their job with the recent 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court on Janus v. AFSCME. This ruling affirms for the first time that public sector employees are not required to give their hard earned dollar to a labor union. For teachers like Paul or Christine, this means that freedom from the hyper political unions can now become a reality.
It’s no different here in Vermont, rather then the teach the three “R’s it’s how to be a S.W.J.