Dissidents win in the DC union elections

[Hannah Bell]

Saunders and Peterson Win DC Election

YIPPPEEEEE! Our pals in DC won the union election. The AFT is getting to be interesting with Karen Lewis and Nathan Saunders. Too bad our pals in Puerto Rico pulled their 40,000 teachers out of the AFT in 2003. We might have seen some interesting action in Detroit at the next AFT convention in 2012.

When reported on the NYCEdNewsListserve Leonie Haimson wrote:

With Rhee, Fenty and now Parker gone, it is a new day in DC.
Daley going too in Chicago, as well as their schools CEO, Huberman.
Klein leaving, but not Bloomberg unfortunately….NYC is the unluckiest of the three.

I responded with:

Another union victory for the anti-Weingarten forces in the AFT.

NYC is unluckiest of the 3 because we still have Unity Caucus running the UFT.

See video I did of Nathan Saunders and Candi Peterson at the AFT convention in Seattle this summer.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=EdNotesOnline#p/u/5/v4wo0viVzT0

Both Nathan and Candi were out in LA in the summer of 2009 when a bunch of Real Reformers (union too) met with the LA teachers union and a group from CORE in Chicago when their hope of winning the union election was slim.

The UFT/AFT ineptness (or collaboration) is creating a more militant movement within the teachers union nationwide. Detroit may be next.

http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/

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