I'll join a union when I get a full time teaching job. I've seen what happens when I get caught alone. And frankly I wouldn't want that to happen on a job. Having no one at your back is not a good place to be, when you want to keep your job. The unions have been very helpful to many teachers I know, who had unique ways or teaching, or were victims of some kind of discrimination, or had other problems- and the teachers that I know were great teachers, imo, not the crappy kind that we'd like to get rid of, but the innovative creative kind. One of my mentor teachers, and one of the people I admire most in teaching, was a union rep. I know only the teachers union in my area, but I am pretty familiar with it now, and I like it a lot more than any alternative I can imagine.
I'll do more than wave a flag, I'll march in their parade- to my own drummer, of course. |
