CTA Leadership Approves Sell-Out
Earlier this week I predicted that CTA would sell out its members, children and the rest of the public sector in order to claim victory in its week-long State of Emergency protest over impending multi-billion dollar cuts to K-12 education. While it is still too early to tell exactly how things will play out, CTA’s new president, Dean Vogel, said this week that he likes the Governor’s revised budget proposal, a plan that includes slashing 5,500 state jobs, eliminating the Departments of Mental Health and Alcohol and Drug Programs, and stripping Healthy Families health insurance from nearly 1 million kids. The plan also depends on the support of four more Republicans who will no doubt demand union concessions in exchange for their votes. And if they do approve the plan, it will force low income Californians to pay for the brunt of the bailout through regressive tax extensions.
Vogel likes the plan because it allows him to claim that the millions of dollars CTA spent on the