How will the unions’ new strategy on increased organizing affect you and me? Well, here is how. The National Education Assocation, the teachers’ union, is organizing a boycott of Wal-Mart.
Er, just why would it be so important for the teachers to take their eye off the ball and their critical national role in educating our children to worry about Wal-Mart and its employees? That is what Michael Reitz is wondering too. Apart from the fact that the NEA is worried that “Wal-Mart employees are forced to seek government-subsidized health care benefits, which drains billions from public money that could be used to fund public education,”
The NEA even criticizes the Walton family, the founders of Wal-Mart, for contributing to “anti-public education efforts like private school voucher initiatives and anti-public educations PACs.”
What’s the problem, you say? Why stop the NEA when it starts worrying more about Wal-Mart than defending its own monopolies and privileges? Good point. The more “cycles” that the NEA puts into union boycott campaigns the less it can put into opposing education reform.
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