Wisconsin Radicalized Teacher Union Officials Trained to be That Way

On April 2, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

The Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) uses forced-dues to fund its union organizers at Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation training facilities.  Looks like they are gearing-up for 2012 elections.  Hope these union officials are not using taxpayer-paid union time to learn how to tear-down democracy. From Christian Hartsock’s piece at Breitbart.com:

Breitbart.com has learned that teachers in Wisconsin have been attending routine training workshops with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), a radical organization founded by Saul Alinsky in 1940.

In a video produced by the MacIver Institute, organizers are seen arriving at a March 17 training session with the Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin’s state teachers union.

Teachers’ unions led last year’s protests in Wisconsin against collective bargaining reforms, and are now heavily involved in the effort to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker. In addition to Alinskyite groups, the recall effort has attracted the support of radicals such as unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.

In a little-known speech to Wisconsin teachers last September, Ayers spoke of the need for “a new kind of education for a new kind of citizens that can make a new kind of society” (part 1 is here; part 2 is here).

The training tactics of the IAF were detailed in a 1994 book by Jim Rooney called Organizing the South Bronx, which was praised by Ayers as on the back cover as “an outstanding book.”

The book details the IAF’s tactics as follows:

  • “IAF leaders are brazenly explicit about their appetite for power.” (p. 222)
  • “There is no nice way to bring about change. All change comes through pressure and threats.” (p. 226)
  • “Increase militancy by polarizing the situation, by identifying the enemy and by developing the situation in terms of good guys and bad guys.” (p. 89)
  • “It is absolutely essential to select a ripe target [a person] and build animosity toward him or her.” (p. 228)

 

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Belling: School Supervisor Orders Employee To Remove Pro-Gov. Walker Sign From Car

On March 28, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

Mark Belling, radio talk show host (known nationally as an occasional substitute host for Rush Limbaugh), exposed political totalitarianism at Wisconsin’s Whitewater High School.  Documents show that specifically two educators, Kate Kolak, a Spanish teacher, and Deb Brigham-Schmull, an art teacher, wanted end Mary Taylor’s free speech.  Taylor’s supervisor, who ordered her to remove the Walker endorsement, is a signatory on a Recall Walker petition.

Wisconsin teachers unions have been some of the most vociferous about recalling Gov. Walker; and they have not been shy about pour union dues in their campaign to recall the Governor.

From Belling’s website:

An open records request filed by me has produced records indicating at least two Whitewater High School employees, including the supervisor of custodians, requested that a private custodial worker be ordered to remove her pro-Scott Walker sign from her car in the school parking lot.

The employee, Mary Taylor, says she was fired by her employer, Diversified Building Maintenance, for her refusal to remove her sign. Diversified acknowledges it sent Mary home and told her not to work the following day but says it would re-assign her to a different school.

The company backed down after I reported on this two weeks ago. At the time, Whitewater District Administrator Eric Runez claimed no one from the school district directed Diversified to tell Mary to remove her sign. (more…)

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Walker Recall Update

On March 22, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

We are all following Big Labor’s unprecedented attempt to buy a new governor and senate in Wisconsin.  Gov. Scott Walker believe the union bosses will unload $70 to $80 million on the state before election day.  While union militants claim the issue is about collective bargaining, Walker knows better:

The real problem for them, Walker argues, is the new ability of public employees to opt out of paying dues. “If workers keep their own money, they’re not giving it to the union,” Walker says. “They’re spending it on their health insurance or pension contribution.” Consider: A month after Walker’s budget went into effect, the largest union in the state, the Wisconsin Education Association Council, laid off 42 employees, or about 40 percent of its staff.

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Wisconsin Reality vs. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s “Reality Rendezvous”

On March 19, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

Imagine what would happen in Wisconsin if they gave private sector employees the same freedoms.

“Our rendezvous with reality has arrived.”  That is what Illinois Governor Pat Quinn said this week as he unveiled his state budget.  Their economic slap in the face comes nearly one year after we took steps to get our fiscal house in order.

As we were passing legislation requiring state employees and teachers to make modest contributions to their health insurance and pensions to help offset necessary cuts, Quinn and Democrats in Illinois passed massive tax increases.

I told you then that our path, although a more difficult one, was the correct path to take.  Now, it couldn’t be more clear that we were right.  We closed a massive $3.6 billion budget deficit without raising taxes and without massive layoffs.

Illinois, meanwhile, is in even more economic peril because of  tax increases that clobbered their families and businesses.  To try to fix the mess he created, Governor Quinn is out with a budget that proposes the closing of numerous prisons, 60 state offices, laying off 1,100 state employees and cutting Medicaid by $2.7 billion.

It’s so bad that $8 billion in bills would still go unpaid and state worker pensions costs will rise by more than $1 billion.  Even faced with that, Quinn and Illinois democrats are refusing to tackle the issue, instead calling on “task forces” to be created to look into ways to reign in skyrocketing health care and pension costs. (more…)

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Big Labor; Big Money; Big Lies

On March 16, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

Brietbart.com looks at the upcoming torrent of political spending fueled by forced union dues money:

The largest American labor federation promised this week it would launch the most aggressive campaign effort in the labor movement’s history, tapping at least 400,000 union members to fill the voter contact and get-out-the-vote voids in the larger Democratic operation.

AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka formally endorsed President Barack Obama on Wednesday, though it came as no particular surprise: labor’s 2008 contributions to Democratic candidates neared a record half-billion dollar threshold.

All while draining pension funds, the same groups have pledged to contribute another $400 million to the president’s reelection effort later this year, putting Big Labor’s total contribution to Barack Obama’s political career at well over a billion dollars. But the presidential contest is just one front of a grand operation wherein a number of marquee statewide races — gubernatorial and legislative bouts in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Minnesota are said to register atop their agenda — will be targeted. (more…)

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200,000 Teachers Freed from Shackles of Forced Unionism

On February 28, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

It appears efforts to provide teacher’s with the ability to choose or not to choose to join a union has resulted in a remarkable 200,000 teachers deciding not to rejoin their union.

The Education Action Group notes that over the past year, several states – including Wisconsin, Tennessee and Idaho – have passed legislation freeing teachers from the shackles of compulsory union membership.  The results?  ”A new report finds the National Education Association has revised its membership numbers downward – from 3.2 million to just over 3 million.  According to Mike Antonucci of the Education Intelligence Agency website, the hemorrhaging of members is contributing to the NEA’s $17 million deficit, which may force union leaders to lay off employees and cut aid to state affiliates.

 

 

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Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels compared Illinois to “living next door to the Simpsons”

On February 11, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D-Big Labor) is trying to assure his state that Indiana’s decision to give worker’s Right to Work protection will have no impact on his state. Quinn said major companies are “thriving” in forced unionized Illinois. But reality tells a different story.

The News Gazette reported in January Jimmy Johns corporate headquarters is just one of many companies looking to leave the state for its anti-business and anti-worker policies:

Jimmy John Liautaud told The News-Gazette on Tuesday that he is angry about the moves, which boosted the individual income tax from 3 percent to 5 percent and the corporate income tax from 7.3 percent to 9.5 percent. The founder of Jimmy John’s said he has applied for Florida residency and may recommend that his corporate headquarters move out-of-state as a result of the Illinois tax increases enacted last week.

Stateline News also reported that Quinn’s tax hikes have governors in Wisconsin, Texas and even in New Jersey courting businesses from the Land of Lincoln. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who know has the Right to Work arrow in his quiver to court businesses to his state, has compared Illinois to “living next door to the Simpsons.”

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Union Activist Voter Fraud Investigated

On February 7, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

Nothing is going to stop union militants efforts to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his pro-reform allies — even the law, apparently.  The Racine County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the possibility of fraudulent signatures on the petitions to recall Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine.

Jeff Demet’s name is on the petitions four times, but he said he didn’t sign even once. Also, his mother, Mary Demet’s signature is on the recall petitions, but she said she didn’t sign. Dennis Sargent of Racine is also on a petition that was allegedly circulated by Mark Demet, Jeff Demet’s brother. But Sargent said he did not sign a petition to recall Wanggaard and the address listed is not where he lives.

For more, read: Suspect recall signing could result in felony charges

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