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"Some benefits are excludable for sure, a union isn't going to fight a non-members wrongful firing case." This is absolutely false. These are just a few anecdo
by jfjfkfmf 5y ago
"Some benefits are excludable for sure, a union isn't going to fight a non-members wrongful firing case."
This is absolutely false. These are just a few anecdotes but there are several
"An arbitrator in 2007 found that teacher Alexis Grullon had victimized young girls with repeated hugging, "incidental though not accidental contact with one student's breast" and "sexually suggestive remarks." The teacher had denied all these charges. In the end the arbitrator found him "unrepentant," yet punished him with only a six-month suspension."
"In 2016 and 2017, Poway Unified School District officials found that Westview High School coaches Derek Peterson and Tim Medlock sent inappropriate text messages to underage students. Those officials found that they violated school policy and in response, issued each of them warnings. Both men continue to teach at Westview High."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443437504577547313612049308 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443437504577547...
https://voiceofsandiego.org/2019/08/15/how-do-misbehaving-teachers-keep-their-jobs-districts-unions-blame-each-other/ https://voiceofsandiego.org/2019/08/15/how-do-misbehaving-te...
- brimble 5y agoAre either of these cases of unions aiding a non-member, which is the topic of the sentence you quoted? I can't read all of the first one—which is an opinion piece anyway, as is the second—but the second doesn't seem to be about that. At any rate, this, from your second link, is insightful: > For Medlock and Peterson, it wasn’t necessarily the union that protected them. It was the district, which said they’ve been disciplined enough. You wouldn't believe what districts cover up or ignore, even if the union's not a factor. It's routine.