Unions: I need an intellegent discussion on their validity

[Griff]

Originally Posted by tw

Adversarial unions are created by adversarial management. Too often, when management is blaming the union, they forget to notice why the problems originally exist.

Sometimes. I ran into a problem in a local school system while attempting to do some Sp Ed research. The research I was doing happened to coincide with a major blow up between the union and administration. In this case the union is resisting Federal Law. Teachers unions are notorious for being run by old teachers who know everything about education. These tend to be the same folks who don't want non-typical students in their classrooms.

Which union you join is a biggy as well, in education the choices are not good.