Forced Unionism at Taxpayer Expense

Steven Greenhut explains how forced union membership hurts the public on the California Policy Center Online. His comparison includes teacher and police union officials.

America’s public school systems are notorious for their rubber rooms. That’s where teachers deemed unfit to work in a classroom pass the time as their disciplinary actions or terminations move through the convoluted system. This can take years, and while it does, the teachers collect their full paychecks as they twiddle their thumbs. It’s a vestige of our union-dominated school system, which has so many protections (for teachers, not kids) that it’s nearly impossible to fire bad actors.