Cage match
Columnist Rebecca Walsh, the Trib's resident she-devil, pokes a stick at the ticking time bomb activated in November when voters bitch slapped GOP lawmakers. Remember that referendum that overwhelmingly hurled the state's new voucher law down the ol' elevator shaft? It was enough to make freemarketeers like Sen. Howard Stephenson and Rep. Greg Hughes weep like a presidential candidate.
Leading the charge against vouchers, with torches, pitchforks and rope, was the Utah Edu
cation Association. The female-dominated union has mixed it up with the Legislature before, Walsh explains, "While lawmakers treat most unions with indifference, one union makes them apoplectic - the Utah Education Association."
In short, it's going to get ugly. The UEA is already planning its get-back as discussed earlier in SLCrawler.
Meanwhile, conservative lawmakers have a long tradition of union busting behavior.
Not surprisingly, many teachers are trying to get out of the line of fire by creating a new "professional association" (Don't use the 'U' word!) to "make friends" with lawmakers.
Leading the charge against vouchers, with torches, pitchforks and rope, was the Utah Edu
cation Association. The female-dominated union has mixed it up with the Legislature before, Walsh explains, "While lawmakers treat most unions with indifference, one union makes them apoplectic - the Utah Education Association."In short, it's going to get ugly. The UEA is already planning its get-back as discussed earlier in SLCrawler.
Meanwhile, conservative lawmakers have a long tradition of union busting behavior.
Not surprisingly, many teachers are trying to get out of the line of fire by creating a new "professional association" (Don't use the 'U' word!) to "make friends" with lawmakers.
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