Union Seeks Rule Change For Schools

Charter schools have to be VERY careful here -- if we give our opponents even a few situations like this, however unrepresentative, they'll use them to get legislation passed that will effectively get all of our schools unionized (which would destroy them)...
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Union Seeks Rule Change For Schools

BY DEBORAH KOLBEN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
June 28, 2006
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/35185

The head of the city's teachers union is latching onto a recent spate of firings at a Brooklyn charter school to push Albany to make it easier for teachers at charter schools to join the union.

After the Williamsburg Charter School fired three teachers, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, stepped in. She fired off letters yesterday to the school's CEO, to the city's schools chancellor, Joel Klein, and to the state Department of Education.

In a letter to the school, Ms. Weingarten said that she was "appalled" that administrators would terminate the teachers' contracts after they attempted to organize to seek better wages and benefits.