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Education Minnesota President Denise Specht uses race to stay home!

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A Pioneer Press article featuring  Education Minnesota President Denise Specht, is rife with errors, misstatements and downright racism. Here's part of the numbers game. The article states, " Education Minnesota says 49 percent of respondents would prefer to do their jobs remotely instead of teaching in-person. Among educators of color, that figure was nearly 60 percent ." Let me translate, the majority of teachers, 51%, want to go back to work. Why are teachers opinions broken down by race? Does some educators color have more weight in a survey than others? Which colors have more weight and which have less? And more importantly, Why? Fact: Children of essential employees have been in Daycare since the outset of the shutdowns. Essential employees are exposed to everyone at risk. Neither the children, nor the daycare workers have had an outbreak of the Covid. Daycares are full of unmasked, snot nosed kids tumbling all over each other. If daycare workers can go to work, s...

Minnesota Unions Losing Members in wake of Janus Decision

The 2018 Janus Decision by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), has uncovered just how much support the Public Sector Employee Unions actually have. Since the Janus v AFSCME ruling (see below) membership in Minnesota Publics Employee Unions has plummeted. Average loss is in the 50% range, although one Teamster 320 group reportedly has only 33 members out of a unit of over 100. The rest have either opted out or not joined. It's no surprise. As reported previously by us , AFSCME Council 5 Executive Director John Westmoreland resigned amidst charges of misconduct. Teamsters 320 Boss Brian Aldes has ties to Federally Indicted Chicago Teamster Boss John Coli, and Brian has supported the UAW even as the Feds prepare RICO charges against them. But SCOTUS didn't rule in favor of Janus because of ties to corruption, but as a violation of First Amendment Free Speech. Public Employee Unions regularly support candidates whose positions are in stark contrast to member ...