CELEBRATING THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S JANUS DECISION # 1

CELEBRATING THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S JANUS DECISION # 1

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - MON. JUNE 11/18

"JANUS VS. AFMSCE, IF SUCCESSFUL, IT WOULD FORBID PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS FROM COLLECTING THE FEES FROM WORKERS WHO ARE PRESENTED BY THEM BUT DO NOT WANT TO BELONG TO THEM."

    AS A RETIRED PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER, LET ME CRY OUT!  "FREE, FREE AT LAST! UNIONISM HAS CHANGED THE VERY NATURE OF THE TEACHING PROFESSION! WE WERE NOT MEANT TO BE UNION TEACHERS: FOR MOST TEACHERS IT WILL MEAN AN EXTRA ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS BY NOT BEING PART OF THE UNION. FOR ALL CALIFORNIA TAX PAYERS THE FUNDING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE LEFTISTS THAT CONTROL IT WILL CEASE. THE BOTTOM LINE IS:

1. YOU PAY FOR YOUR POLITICAL AND SOCIAL AGENDA AND I WILL PAY FOR MINE. BUT DON'T FORCE ME AS A CONDITION OF MY EMPLOYMENT TO PAY FOR YOURS.

2. ALEXANDER HAMILTON SAID: "POWER OVER A MAN'S SUBSISTENCE IS POWER OVER HIS WILL."

3. THOMAS JEFFERSON WROTE: "THAT TO COMPEL A  MAN TO FURNISH CONTRIBUTIONS OF MONEY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF OF OPINIONS WHICH HE DISBELIEVES AND ABHORS IS SINFUL AND TYRANNICAL."

4. SAMUEL GOMPERS, THE FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR SAID: "I WANT TO URGE DEVOTION TO THE FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN LIBERTY - THE PRINCIPLES OF VOLUNTARISM. NO LASTING GAIN HAS EVER COME FROM COMPULSION.

    UNIONISM IN THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT IDEA, BUT IN PRACTICE IT IS A LIVING HELL FOR THE INDEPENDENT-MINDED PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL TEACHERS. WE HAVE THE LEGALIZED UNION PRINCIPLES OF S.C.R.E.A.A.M. DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY. PROMOTED - 

S - STRIKES, - C- COERCION, - R, RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL: - E. EXCLUSIVITY IN NEGOTIATIONS, A - AGENCY FEES ( TODAY  YOU PAY ABOUT ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS YEARLY) -

A - ADVERSARY RELATIONSHIP, M - MONOPOLY BARGAINING. WHAT BOTHERED ME THE MOST WAS THE POLITICIZATION OF THE PROFESSION. THAT IS WRONG AND IT IS NOT AMERICAN!!

    THE UNION TEACHING ESTABLISHMENT LEFT ME. I WAS A PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER

IN WESTMINSTER, CALIFORNIA FOR 23 YEARS. (1963-1986) I WAS A HAPPY VOLUNTARY  MEMBER OF THE NEA (NATIONAL), CTA (STATE), AND WTA (WESTMINSTER) FOR 5 YEARS. (1963-1968)

    THEN THE NEA AND CTA CHANGED ITS PHILOSOPHY FROM PROFESSIONAL(OPPOSED TO UNIONISM) TO UNION. MAINLY DUE TO THE COMPETITION THEY GOT FROM THE NEW YORK TEACHER UNIONS. YOU MUST NOW JOIN ALL OF THE THREE ORGANIZATIONS OR NONE AT ALL. THEY MAY HAVE GOTTEN THAT KIND OF ADVICE FROM THE NOTORIOUS SAUL ALINSKY. 

    IN MY NEXT LETTER I WILL TALK ABOUT THE DEAN OF STATE SENATORS IN CALIFORNIA, ALBERT RODDA WHO WROTE THE DESTRUCTIVE UNION BILL FOR CALIFORNIA IN 1975, THE RODDA ACT 160 EFFECTIVE IN 1976. DEMOCRAT ALBERT RODDA ADVISED HIS COLLEAGUES THAT:

"LEGISLATURES SHALL MAKE THE PUBLIC INTEREST THEIR FIRST AND PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVE - EXCEPT THAT LEGISLATORS SHALL RESPOND TO THE SPECIAL AND SELFISH INTERESTS OF THEIR OWN CONSTITUENTS, AND THIS SHALL HAVE A HIGHER PRIORITY."                                                      

THIS RESULTED IN CHANGING THE NATURE OF THE TEACHING PROFESSION, POLITICIZING THE PROFESSION  AND SETTING ASIDE ITS INTEGRITY AND INDEPENDENCE.

GEORGE H. KUBECK