Comments on: Quote Of The Day http://thehayride.com/2010/02/quote-of-the-day-47/ News And Commentary On Louisiana And National Politics Sat, 26 May 2012 19:15:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: macaoidh http://thehayride.com/2010/02/quote-of-the-day-47/comment-page-1/#comment-759 macaoidh Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:56:00 +0000 http://thehayride.com/?p=1418#comment-759 It's a union. Unions don't exist to foster excellence in the workforce; they exist to perpetuate themselves through more money for their members and more control over working conditions. This isn't such a terrible thing when there is management on the other side of the table to negotiate at arm's length with its own money, but in the case of a public-employee union like the teachers, there is no "management" - there are only politicians who see the union members as a constituency to be co-opted and taxpayer funds as inexhaustible. It's a union. Unions don't exist to foster excellence in the workforce; they exist to perpetuate themselves through more money for their members and more control over working conditions. This isn't such a terrible thing when there is management on the other side of the table to negotiate at arm's length with its own money, but in the case of a public-employee union like the teachers, there is no "management" – there are only politicians who see the union members as a constituency to be co-opted and taxpayer funds as inexhaustible.

]]> By: macaoidh http://thehayride.com/2010/02/quote-of-the-day-47/comment-page-1/#comment-5653 macaoidh Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:56:00 +0000 http://thehayride.com/?p=1418#comment-5653 It's a union. Unions don't exist to foster excellence in the workforce; they exist to perpetuate themselves through more money for their members and more control over working conditions. This isn't such a terrible thing when there is management on the other side of the table to negotiate at arm's length with its own money, but in the case of a public-employee union like the teachers, there is no "management" - there are only politicians who see the union members as a constituency to be co-opted and taxpayer funds as inexhaustible. It's a union. Unions don't exist to foster excellence in the workforce; they exist to perpetuate themselves through more money for their members and more control over working conditions. This isn't such a terrible thing when there is management on the other side of the table to negotiate at arm's length with its own money, but in the case of a public-employee union like the teachers, there is no "management" – there are only politicians who see the union members as a constituency to be co-opted and taxpayer funds as inexhaustible.

]]> By: Mike_Youngblood http://thehayride.com/2010/02/quote-of-the-day-47/comment-page-1/#comment-758 Mike_Youngblood Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:32:33 +0000 http://thehayride.com/?p=1418#comment-758 Apparently Parker doesn't care about the quality of education offered by the system he works in, but only about having teachers paying dues to his union. Why are kids and their parents leaving? Where are they going, and what does their destination school offer? Fix the system? NO! Just collect the dues. Apparently Parker doesn't care about the quality of education offered by the system he works in, but only about having teachers paying dues to his union. Why are kids and their parents leaving? Where are they going, and what does their destination school offer?

Fix the system? NO! Just collect the dues.

]]> By: Mike_Youngblood http://thehayride.com/2010/02/quote-of-the-day-47/comment-page-1/#comment-5652 Mike_Youngblood Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:32:00 +0000 http://thehayride.com/?p=1418#comment-5652 Apparently Parker doesn't care about the quality of education offered by the system he works in, but only about having teachers paying dues to his union. Why are kids and their parents leaving? Where are they going, and what does their destination school offer? Fix the system? NO! Just collect the dues. Apparently Parker doesn't care about the quality of education offered by the system he works in, but only about having teachers paying dues to his union. Why are kids and their parents leaving? Where are they going, and what does their destination school offer?

Fix the system? NO! Just collect the dues.

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