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verita84 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 no, Teachers unions are notorious for keeping bad teachers. Regular work unions have to keep bad employees. The fight for higher pay and benefits is costly to companies
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kate | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 you're generalising from the exception not the rule. also, there's lots of evidence that shows there's actually a high cost to not providing decent pay and benefits to workers.
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verita84 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This is very common though. Unions are good in theory but fell to corruption and abuse like everything else
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kate | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 so isn't the answer more transparency and accountability, not throwing the baby out with the bathwater?