Onus Shmonus.
Union hater Mike Antonucci claims that since states with collective bargaining laws pay their teachers more than right-to-work non-union states the “onus,” as he puts it, is on unions to show they are worth what he calculates as the extra 20% that unionized teachers get paid.
Of course, Alexander Russo repeats this nonsense on his blog.
But Antonucci’s hatred for unions blinds him. He at once admits that teacher salaries and students scores are not to be correlated and then he proceeds to correlate them.
But collective bargaining is what it says it is: An agreement between the board of education, which usually is elected and represents the community’s financial interest, and the teachers union, which represents their members on issues of working conditions and wages. The
