Unionization means the rights of educators to negotiate with employers are handed to the union, regarded as their exclusive representative. This is unfavorable for workers, as most prefer to discuss their terms of employment directly with their managers.
Nonetheless, the unionization of charter schools became rampant in the previous decade (2001-2010), increasing by 444%.
“The problem with the Soviet Union was not its leaders or its employees; it was the closed, uncompetitive economic system that stifled its innovation. We have the Soviet equivalent in our schools; it’s a system that shuns competition and thwarts change. But in America, it’s the [union] collective bargaining agreements that are the glue keeping the monopoly together. – Eva Moskowitz, Summer 2006
Dr. Moskowitz is a former chair of the New York City Council Education Committee. She is also the founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, which oversees the operations of 12 charter schools in Harlem, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan.
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