This oughta teach him!

[didymus]

NY Post:

This oughta teach him!

n a move of stunning hypocrisy, the United Federation of Teachers axed one of its longtime employees – for trying to unionize the powerful labor organization’s own workers, it was charged yesterday.

Jim Callaghan, a veteran writer for the teachers union, told The Post he was booted from his $100,000-a-year job just two months after he informed UFT President Michael Mulgrew that he was trying to unionize some of his co-workers.

“I was fired for trying to start a union at the UFT,” said a dumbfounded Callaghan, who worked for the union’s newsletter and as a speechwriter for union leaders for the past 13 years.

Callaghan said he personally told Mulgrew on June 9 about his intention to try to organize nonunionized workers at UFT headquarters.
“I told him I want to have the same rights that teachers have,” said Callaghan, 63, of Staten Island. “He told me he didn’t want that, that he wanted to be able to fire whoever he wanted to.”

Gee, next somebody will try to organise the folks unions pay minimum wage to for picketing.

 

[CatholicGerman]

Unions. Can’t live with them, can’t organize in them.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Gee, if a union’s employees were unionized, wouldn’t that tear a hole in the universe or something?

 

[TheTrueCentrist]

Gee, if a union’s employees were unionized, wouldn’t that tear a hole in the universe or something?

Nested unions!

I’ve always thought that the concept of a union for public employees what somewhat foolish. They are employed, after all, through a government in which they have a say. Unions are ostensibly meant to give the workers collective bargaining power, but public employees already have this through the ballot box.

 

[Suudy]

I’m anxious to see what our resident “American runs best when it says union yes” crowd has to say.

 

[MichaelR]

Just goes to show that a lot of higher up people in some unions aren’t on workers sides, they’re just on their own side.