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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

NYC Educator: The Three Laws of Robotics*

NYC Educator: The Three Laws of Robotics*:



The Three Laws of Robotics*

by special guest blogger Arwen E.
  
A Robo-Voter Weighs the UFT-Unity Loyalty Oath 

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WHY IS THERE A UFT-UNITY LOYALTY OATH? 
Why are 800 UFT-Unity minds, representing very diverse constituencies, supposed to vote according to a single set of fallible dictates?  (See UFT-Unity Loyalty Oath above.)
Why do 800 democratically chosen chapter leaders lose their democratic voice when they sign on to UFT-Unity? Why must 800 Unity members promise to vote as they are told?  (See Loyalty Oath above.)
Why are eight-hundred highly intelligent minds beholden to loyalty oaths reminiscent of those opposed by the AFT in the 1950s?  (See Oath above.)


 How can union employment opportunities be withheld from those members who refuse to sign on to this loyalty