Tag: Government Unions

Farmer publicly supports government union reform, so it’s fair to assume he’s a Republican. Does that mean he’s less of a teacher than peers who vote Democrat?

In OEA President Patricia Frost-Brooks’s economic world, you’re paid $190,000 a year to pat yourself on the back for demanding unsustainable compensation while demonizing reforms that would reward the best educators.

By “rhetoric and posturing,” Leibensperger is referring to the complaints and criticisms of OEA employees against OEA. Interesting, since OEA uses the same “rhetoric and posturing” when fighting elected officials for taxpayer dollars!

In late August I began sharing quotes and context with readers of the Ohio sites I write for in my free time. By early September, years of union employees’ entries had vanished down the memory hole.

The Ohio Education Association (OEA), Ohio’s largest government union and We Are Ohio’s biggest in-state donor, has quite the history of strife with its own employees.

“Ironic” is one word to describe OEA’s behavior with regard to its employees. Another would be “pathetic” – union bosses tell locals to “bargain hard” when taxpayer dollars are at stake, but suddenly care about saving money when it comes to their own cut.

I find it troubling that more than two years’ worth of entries written by your members – Ohio Education Association employees – are now hidden from the public or gone entirely.

Three words for OEA bosses and the leftist hacks who have been whining about what a boring, irrelevant series my PSU posts have been: Print to PDF.

Would you hand a blank check to an HR consultant with miserable people skills? That’s what Ohio’s government union law passed in 1983 on a party-line vote does.

Not only does OEA fight to avoid providing the benefits they demand for members, as recently as 2009 the union was instructing locals to squeeze struggling districts for all they could.