Money is Teacher Union Officials’ Interest
Mike Antonucci explains how teacher union officials take cost into consideration when deciding which cases to pursue when it comes to firing teachers in the 74million.org.
The most common criticism of teachers unions is that they protect bad employees. It can often take years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to fire a tenured public school teacher. Sometimes districts don’t even bother trying — even if the teacher is in jail.
But protecting teachers isn’t as straightforward as many believe. The district, the union, and often the union’s insurers all have economic interests that help determine how a teacher termination case will proceed. The teacher may have less influence over the outcome than any of these other players.