The Teachers Union . . . .

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The entire public school system is based on government coercion. The government taxes the public to set up schools that are screened by high-level members of the teaching profession, by university departments of education, by various departments of education, and by the entrenched bureaucracy of the Department of Education of the United States government. The privileged self-certified educational bureaucracy then establishes the standards for entrance into the guild.

Therefore, the claim of the union movement that it represents "the workers" is one of the biggest con jobs in the history of Western civilization. It is almost as great a deception as the phrase, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." While it is true the government may help one person for a period of time, thereby creating dependence on the civil government, the government must penalize other members of society for its ability to make the promise to the individual who thinks the government is there to help him.
-Gary North

http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1201.html