Another big California battle is being waged over an initiative that is designed to allow public employees the freedom to choose whether they want the unions that “represent” them to spend their dues money on politics. Now, teachers everywhere keep talking about how it’s so critical for schools to be places of tolerance and inclusiveness, but it’s clear from this excellent column by Deroy Murdock that such notions are utterly abandoned when it comes to people (and especially teachers) who favor Prop. 76. The treatment dished out to those who dissent from the union line has been pretty ugly.
For a long time, I have been thinking of writing an article — maybe even a book — on the worst blunders in American history. The legislation that gives unions the power to represent workers who don’t want it and force them to pay for it easily makes the Top 10.
