Even Unions Have Had It with the Teachers’ Unions

Written by David Frum on Sunday September 19, 2010

The teachers' unions decision to spend $1 million to defeat Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty is not sitting well even amongst labor supporters.

A friend generally supportive of labor unions comments on the AFT spending $1 million to defeat D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty in order to get rid of school superintendent Michelle Rhee:

The teachers’ unions are KILLING us, i.e. the rest of the labor movement.  They've become like the Soviet Union was for socialism: a very, very bad demonstration of the entire concept.

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