Wisconsin Teachers Forced to Teach Students Pro-Union Propaganda…
I’m sure the teachers have absolutely no problem with this.
(Daily Caller) — Wisconsin’s teachers are required to teach children about the history of the labor union movement and collective bargaining in the United States, per a law former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle signed in December 2009. Wisconsin’s Assembly Bill (AB) 172 requires the state’s teachers to incorporate “the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process” into their lesson plans.
Describing the new law, AB 172, Wisconsin’s official Department of Public Instruction (DPI) website says, “Wisconsin has long been a leader in labor rights. The Progressive Movement, which had its beginnings in our state, led to laws limiting child labor and safety in the workplace. Unions such as the AFL-CIO and Teamsters allow us to enjoy an eight-hour work week and vacation time. In fact, it has been argued by some historians that the history of the United States itself could be a history of labor.”
For help in lesson planning, the Wisconsin DPI provides links to the Wisconsin Labor History Society, the Wisconsin Historical Society Labor Collections and the Educational Communications Board Surf Report on Labor History, all pro-union websites.
The Wisconsin Labor History Society reported that the only reason the bill passed was because Democrats were in control of both houses of the legislature and the governor’s office for the first time in 12 years.
Posted by ZIP on Thursday, February 24, 2011, at 10:49 am | 
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Can you major in Hoffa Archaeology–the search for his body?
No surprise. We know the unionized teachers are far more interested in indoctrination than education.
Yeah, right! Like they weren’t teaching that crap before it was law.
It also begs the question: How is this law constitutional?
Home school or send your kids to a private school. It’s the only way to keep the left from brainwashing your Children.
Do they want to teach everything, or do they want to cherry-pick what is taught to the kids?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reuther
Walter Philip Reuther (September 1, 1907 – May 9, 1970) was an American labor union leader, who made the United Automobile Workers a major force not only in the auto industry but also in the Democratic Party in the mid 20th century. He was a socialist in the early 1930s; he became a leading liberal and supporter of the New Deal coalition.
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He and his brothers went to Europe and then worked 1933-35 in an auto plant at Gorky in the Soviet Union. While a committed socialist, he never became a Communist.
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Reuther was a Socialist Party member; he may have paid dues to the Communist Party for some months in 1935-36; he has been accused of attending a Communist Party planning meeting as late as February 1939.
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Time to make that go away.
The children of that state I’m sure have enough dreck pumped into their heads as is evident by some of the tools who show up to these protests and say they are educators. Six hours aday or more with these clowns is child abuse.
“Unions such as the AFL-CIO and Teamsters allow us to enjoy an eight-hour work week and vacation time.”
Only eight hours a week hmmm….
I have no problem with this as long as they teach the part where the best intentions of the unions were outweighed by the corruption and greed of union bosses and politicians.
Should be easy to undo now there are no Dems in town.
More on union organizing:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_Forever
“Solidarity Forever”, written by Ralph Chaplin in 1915, is perhaps the most famous union anthem after The Internationale. It is sung to the tune of “John Brown’s Body” and is inspired by the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”. Although it was written as a song for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), other union movements, such as the AFL-CIO, have adopted the song as their own.
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The Preamble begins with a classic statement of a two-class analysis of capitalism: “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.” The class struggle will continue until the victory of the working class: “Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.” The Preamble denounces trade unions as incapable of coping with the power of the employing class. By negotiating contracts, the Preamble states, trade unions mislead workers by giving the impression that workers have interests in common with employers.[2]
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Chaplin was not pleased with the widespread popularity of “Solidarity Forever” in the labor movement. Late in his life, after he had become a voice opposing (State) Communists in the labor movement…
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“I didn’t write ‘Solidarity Forever’ for ambitious politicians or for job-hungry labor fakirs seeking a ride on the gravy train. . . . All of us deeply resent seeing a song that was uniquely our own used as a singing commercial for the soft-boiled type of post-Wagner Act industrial unionism that uses million-dollar slush funds to persuade their congressional office boys to do chores for them.” He added, “I contend also that when the labor movement ceases to be a Cause and becomes a business, the end product can hardly be called progress.”
How did Wisconsin get so fucked up?
As long as they’re following it with something along the lines of, “Once upon a time unions were useful in improving the working conditions and safety of workers, but now they are dinosaurs which we no longer need.”
ohgoodgrief – I’ve learned enough from Glenn Beck to remember him saying that wisconsin and minnesota have had large swaths European socialist dreck since they were settled.
Why shouldn’t kids here about unions: and they get to analyze the pros/cons. I am a teacher and a proud union member. I think some of what has happened in Wisconsin is wrong (I am talking about teachers/union). If they want to protest, they should take days off without pay.
What do some of you what: that workers have no rights. I never see “Weasel Zippers” show data on how 3/4 of US corporations are not paying income taxes. I paid over $5000 in income taxes last year. Where is Weasel Zipppers on the fact that taxes are at their lowest levels in 50 plus years. We can solve these issues with honest dicussion/facts: not soundbytes and cursing people.
The person who calls themselves: “Despising the Left”…you make foolish and outrageous comments. I teach science…but I have worked with kids who have incredible needs (hunger/loss of a parent/lost their home/sick with cancer) and you have the nerve to say “child abuse” about teachers? Really. My name is John F. Borowski and I am a proud teacher who has seen teachers work miracles: you, are just an angry person, hiding behind a computer screen using generalization after generalization. That is sad.
Teachers and their unions are not perfect: we can make them better. But, attacking hard working people WHO ARE NOT greedy (we just want to keep collective bargaining) defies commonsense. I just wish you would ask corporate interests to pay their fair share for taking care of the commons.
John F. Borowski, you are just as guilty of hiding behind a computer using generalizations. Do you know which corporations didn’t pay any taxes or are you just repeating information fed to you by the union. I am an owner of a small corporation and I pay plenty of taxes to support all these public employees. I can’t afford health insurance or to even pay into a retirement fund for myself because times are tough, sales are down, and I have to cut back. I know many teachers and firefighters that readily admit that they have it pretty good so I find it hard to have any sympathy for the union protesters. I think your union leaders are making the all the members look pretty bad!
Yes…General Electric didn’t pay any income taxes. Neither did Exxon/Mobile. I am not hiding behind anything.
God bless you for running a small business…but, don’t buy into soundbyte. This site said that Wisconsin teachers make $100,000 that is a lie. The average Wisconsin teacher makes $49,000. Let’s have a discussion based on facts.
I don’t use generalizations. Here is the link to corporations not paying taxes. Please read it….http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_62351.shtml
The Top 7 Corporate Tax Evaders
By Damien Hoffman
April 15 2010
Want to hear something worth having a tea party about? Some of the largest US corporations have mastered the art of evading taxes by booking expenses in the US and profits in low-tax countries.
As you send off your taxes on today’s April 15th filing deadline, think about the multi-billion dollar corporations which Forbes reports had lower tax rates than you did:
http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/01/ge-exxon-walmart-business-washington-corporate-taxes_slide_2.html
7) Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) earned pretax income of $9.4 billion, but managed to keep their tax rate the same as someone earning less than $33,950 a year. Their trickery? Book profits at lower-tax foreign subsidiaries.
6) Verizon
Verizon (VZ) has a lovely 10.5% tax rate. That’s better than a long term capital gain. Although Verizon earned $11.6 billion in pretax income, they have diverted much of their income through foreign wireless partner Vodafone.
5) Chevron
Chevron (CVX) paid $8 billion in taxes on $18.5 billion in pretax income. So why did they make the list? Chevron only sent Uncle Sam a check for $200 million. The rest was paid abroad in lower-tax countries. I think they should change their logo colors from red, white and blue to something more representative of the Caymans.
4) Ford Motors
We all know Ford (F) and other car makers have been skidding since the recession began. The struggling car maker still managed to earn $3 billion in pretax income. The beauty? Ford only plunked down $69 million in taxes — a 2.3% tax rate.
Not bad considering all the other subsidies, bailouts, and cash for clunkers we’ve already given as gifts to one of the oldest car manufacturers in the world.
3) ExxonMobil
ExxonMobile (XOM) did pay $17.6 billion in taxes on $37.3 billion in pretax income. However, unlike Chevron, none of Exxon’s taxes were paid in the US. That’s funny … I think they sell a fair amount of profitable gasoline here.
2) Bank of America
Bank of American (BAC) earned pretax income of $4.4 billion in 2009, yet the financial services super market tallied up a $1.9 billion tax benefit.
How could such a travesty occur? Bank of America scoured the tax code for deductions like $860 million in tax-exempt income, $670 million in low-income housing credits, and a $600 million loss on shares of foreign subsidiaries.
Making matters worse for the US Treasury, Bank of America has a provision for credit losses of $49 billion which will carry over for a long, long time.
1) General Electric
Like those who received an Earned Income Credit (EIC), GE (GE) actually made money on their tax filing this year! Although the industrial behemoth generated $10.3 billion in pretax income, they recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 billion. Don’t we all wish we could be in that bracket.
But big tax breaks are nothing new for the 12th largest company in the world. In 2008, GE’s effective tax rate was 5.3% versus the marginal US corporate rate of 35%. In 2007, it was 15%. You’d think GE would at least pay a little more for paper and administration costs considering their tax filing to the IRS is an astounding 24,000 pages when printed out.