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Thursday, January 16, 2020

AstroTurf Alert: National Parents Union is Thinly Veiled Union Busting Backed by Billionaire Cash | gadflyonthewallblog

AstroTurf Alert: National Parents Union is Thinly Veiled Union Busting Backed by Billionaire Cash | gadflyonthewallblog

AstroTurf Alert: National Parents Union is Thinly Veiled Union Busting Backed by Billionaire Cash
How do you do something disgusting without hurting your image?
If you’re the Walton Family, you hide behind a mask.
That’s what their latest AstroTurf front group is – the so-called National Parents Union (NPU).
It’s a way to bust teachers unions, destroy public schools and profit off of students behind the guise of a friendly parents organization.
Oh, it’s all funded with oodles of cash from the Walton family and other billionaires but they get to pretend to be nothing but supporters on the sidelines.
The people who bust unions before most of us have even had breakfast yet claim they have nothing to do with this anti-union movement. It is all the parents doing. The Walmart heirs just put up the money to let these parents live their dream of union free schools – as if schools where educators have no rights or intellectual CONTINUE READING: AstroTurf Alert: National Parents Union is Thinly Veiled Union Busting Backed by Billionaire Cash | gadflyonthewallblog