Solidarity forever! San Diego and the quisling teacher union leaders
EducationMar 13, 2011- By Emily Alpert March 11, 2011
The biggest surprise at the school board meeting Thursday night was that board President Richard Barrera — a labor organizer long seen as a union ally on the school board — ended up voting to warn teachers of layoffs.
Barrera himself told the crowd of teachers, counselors, nurses and other workers who packed the auditorium: “I am going to violate your trust in me tonight. I’m going to vote for the superintendent’s recommendations. Doing so goes against everything that I believe in.”
Teachers shouted, “So don’t do it!” Barrera continued: “I don’t think doing this is right. I don’t think doing this is smart.” And he believes the school district will end up canceling most or all of them anyway.
But school district staff warned that if San Diego Unified did not prepare for layoffs, the County Office of Education, which vets its budget plans, could stop them from borrowing money to pay its bills. That was what swayed