I’m going to cop to something (and yeah, I’m kind of embarrassed). I honestly did not know that the Chicago School Board had a majority rule of Chicago Teachers’ Union members.
The only reason I know now is because the CTU lost their majority in the elections last night.
No wonder they’ve been allowed to bankrupt the city and suck dry the entire state of Illinois. The inmates were actually running the asylum.
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.
Hopefully the dynamic will have changed enough that next time the CTU shuts down schools in the middle of a term or wants to keep failing schools with almost no enrollment open to keep their membership employed at exorbitant rates, then they will get stopped.
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