How did we get here?
I guess I still can’t get over the letter to Region 36 that IEA President Ken Swanson wrote. I still can’t get over his example of why we should find common ground with a group like Stand for Children who despise teacher unions and collective bargaining.
How did we get here?
How is it that our 130,000 member union has a man as president who doesn’t even stand for the basic principles of unionism?
Let’s look at his hypothetical once more.
For example, if two RIf’d people are nearly equal in seniority for a recall and one has excellent evaluations and the other is in remediation, should the one in remediation be brought back ahead of the excellent teacher because the