Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. — Vladimir Lenin
Seattle Mayor
Mike MkGinn, a former community organizer whose wife was arrested earlier this month
for taking part in a
union-sponsored protest that stormed GOP offices, has been attempting to
‘strong arm’ Seattle’s preschools and child care providers into unionizing, according to the Seattle Times.
Announcing his
Universal Preschool plan in late September, many may not have realized
that his second bullet-point item to “[s]tabilize the pre-kindergarten teacher profession to ensure more
children thrive in a stable environment for learning and care” meant that he wanted to unionize
pre-kindergarten teachers.
While the city
is “not requiring” unionization, McGinn’s Universal
Preschool program seems to be modeled after a hybrid form of a project labor agreement–the type that is found in the
construction industry in that, in exchange for funding, McGinn wants preschools
to establish card-check procedures to unionize them, as well as promises ‘labor
peace’ (i.e., no strikes–which wouldn’t normally happen unless there is a union
present anyway).....To Read More....
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