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2010-06-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Delphi 2010-06-08 08:45|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Welcome to Obambia.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-06-08 10:35|| 2010-06-08 10:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Public unions--a large part of the problem.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-06-08 10:49|| 2010-06-08 10:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Worcester is a cesspool ... of union thuggery (among other things). It well deserves its nickname of Wormtown.

Posted by xbalanke 2010-06-08 11:00|| 2010-06-08 11:00|| Front Page Top

#4 So....the unions can hire and fire in that school district?

Posted by tipover 2010-06-08 11:14|| 2010-06-08 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Public Unions should be banned. I see no need for a 'teachers union' except to protect the bad teachers from being fired. It isn't like the school district has been abusing teachers before unions came along.

And requiring membership (like in Washington State) should also be banned.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-06-08 11:19|| 2010-06-08 11:19|| Front Page Top

#6 His salary is dictated by the U.S. Military, not labor negotiators...

Which is a key part. Who funds the paycheck. IIRC its the feds. The Junior ROTC program is a Title X United State Code institution and therefore is outside the authority and purview of the union.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-06-08 11:21|| 2010-06-08 11:21|| Front Page Top

#7 When military people are hassled by civilians, they need to go to the military to sort things out for them. There are a LOT of military bureaucrats who live for these sorts of fights, and like their combat brethren, they are not in the habit of losing.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-06-08 11:56|| 2010-06-08 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 State law requires certain public employees to join unions as a condition of employment

That is simply unthinkable in France: public employees are recruited through a collective examination and the written parts are proofred under anonimity (ie examintaor doesn't know who is the candidate). Of course for the oral part exmainators have more leeway but 80 to 90% of candidates don't make to the oral part. They are eliminated in the written part of the examination.

BTW: forcing someone to pay 500$ to an organization isn(t it the same than what the mob did to shopkeepers for "protection".

Posted by JFM 2010-06-08 12:40|| 2010-06-08 12:40|| Front Page Top

#9 "this is really a union matter."

And we all know that "union matters" transcend common sense.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-06-08 13:37|| 2010-06-08 13:37|| Front Page Top

#10

BTW: forcing someone to pay 500$ to an organization isn(t it the same than what the mob did to shopkeepers for "protection".

Here in the US, there is a large amount of overlap between the staffs of unions and mobs.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-06-08 14:16|| 2010-06-08 14:16|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm not an attorney but it seems like this Marine might have a law case; e.g. discrimination or unlawful dismisal. These laws requiring union membership for a job ought to be tested--again and again if necessary. There is probably some former Jag officer working in private practice who would take such a case pro bono. There are most likely a lot of people who would support this Marine financially in his cause.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-06-08 16:23|| 2010-06-08 16:23|| Front Page Top

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