“So, Nat’ralists observe, a Flea
Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey,
And these have smaller yet to bite ’em,
And so proceed ad infinitum:”
In the endless predator-prey cycle of municipal government unions, the prey is the taxpayer, but the proliferation of unions also means unions are also preying on each other.
And now Biden had to cancel a speech to the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest union, because while its boss Becky Pringle was getting in touch with her inner Mussolini by way of Oprah, because a union was on strike against the union and he couldn’t cross the picket line of the smaller flea.
So Becky had to go it alone to win all of the things. (All of the things being every last penny in your pocket.)
President Joe Biden canceled a planned speech in Philadelphia at the annual conference of the National Education Association after the union’s staff announced a strike and set up picket lines Friday.
Biden had planned to speak Sunday, but his campaign said the president is a “fierce supporter of unions and he won’t cross a picket line.” The picket line effectively ended the weeklong convention, canceling the last three days of programming, the NEA said.
The NEA’s union, the National Education Association Staff Organization, set up picket lines Friday around the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia and had a three-day strike planned at the event.
The union said it has filed two unfair labor practice complaints over what it says are the NEA’s failure to comply with basic union requirements.
It is accusing the NEA of unilaterally removing holiday overtime pay and failing to provide information on outsourcing $50 million in contracts, it said.
In a statement, the NEA said it remained fully committed to a fair bargaining process. It also said it was “deeply concerning that misinformation has been shared” that misrepresented contract negotiations.
The NEA doesn’t really understand how to negotiate contracts that don’t involve using money looted from the school budget to fund its own political candidates who then give it everything. But why worry when it’s winning everything for its members while the children it’s abusing know there are 59 genders, but can’t add them up.