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In an op-ed this week in the Washington Examiner<\/i>, National Right to Work President Mark Mix discusses the threat to real education reform posed by teacher union bosses in Washington, DC. <\/p>\n

\n\tJust a few weeks ago, Samuel Johnson\u2019s centuries-old observation that a man\u2019s knowledge he is to be hanged \u201cconcentrates his mind wonderfully\u201d seemed quite applicable to Washington Teacher Union (WTU) President George Packer.<\/p>\n

\tOf course, no one was threatening Packer with the rope or any of its modern-day equivalents when they agreed to a new contract in late June making it significantly easier for D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to dismiss ineffective teachers.<\/p>\n

\tBut when he signed off on the new contract, Packer, whose WTU is a subsidiary of the mammoth American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union, faced a Big Labor boss\u2019s worst nightmare, a rapid decline in the number of employees forced to pay to his union dues or fees in order to keep their jobs.<\/p>\n

\tAs recently as 2003, there were roughly 5,000 D.C. teachers who had to accept the WTU as their monopoly-bargaining agent and pay union dues or fees as a job condition. Today, there are barely 4,000. Despite the best efforts of Packer and AFT union czarina Randi Weingarten, that number is set to drop still further over the next few years.
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Read the full op-ed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Over the years, National Right to Work Foundation attorneys have provided free legal aid to teachers whose rights have been violated by compulsory unionism.\u00a0 Read about some of these cases here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an op-ed this week in the Washington Examiner<\/i>, National Right to Work President Mark Mix discusses the threat to real education reform posed by teacher union bosses in Washington, DC. <\/p>\n

\n\tJust a few weeks ago, Samuel Johnson\u2019s centuries-old observation that a man\u2019s knowledge he is to be hanged \u201cconcentrates his mind wonderfully\u201d seemed quite applicable to Washington Teacher Union (WTU) President George Packer.<\/p>\n

\tOf course, no one was threatening Packer with the rope or any of its modern-day equivalents when they agreed to a new contract in late June making it significantly easier for D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to dismiss ineffective teachers.
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