Well, i fail to understand how you could possibly know that. Unless you personally were on the Bargaining Committee, or at least on the Executive Board, the odds are you are clueless as to what went on in the bargaining. As am I, but I have more faith in the teachers and their choices than you do..
I've been a member of either the I.A.ofM., and/or CWA/AFL/CIO for 50 of my 70 years, and I've been on the Executive Board, been involved in the inner workings, know, or knew, since most are dead now, lots and lots of great people who worked their asses off for the members, 90% of it unpaid, after hours, weekends, whatever it took to make things happen, whether it was Contract time, or Benefit issues, maybe just getting a member his medical bills covered, getting Disabilities going, or making sure Death benefits helped the family out, maybe collecting donations to help the widow over the hump, maybe go out, help that widow move from where she couldn't afford to stay, to a smaller place... Maybe chasing down a dishonest manager who'd been screwing over our members for years in violation of all sorts of ethical rules or moral behavior, much less violating the Contract! A lot more goes on than what you see in Union busting rhetoric by AH's with a silver spoon still in their teeth...
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