Texas Teachers Union Leader Arrested—for Talking to Teachers

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Texas Teachers Union Leader Arrested—for Talking to Teachers

What freakin' year is this anyhow? Miners dying due to unsafe work conditions - toxins found in children's toys, Union organizers being arrested for speaking to teachers?! Unreal.

by James Parks, Aug 17, 2007

Want to know why the battle for the Employee Free Choice Act is still going strong? Because of what happens to workers like Carmen Mayorga.

On Aug. 14, Mayorga, president of AFT Local 6345 in Aldine, Texas, was arrested and led away in handcuffs after she tried to hand out union literature to teachers on school property, according to AFT. Mayorga was charged with “failure to identify.” Her car was impounded, and she was held 14 hours before being released, the union says.

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Texas AFT President Linda Bridges says: Surely, the Aldine school district’s police force has better things to do. The superintendent is using to intimidate and coerce employees and their representatives and impede their exercise of constitutional rights of free speech and freedom of association. What is Superintendent Wanda Bamberg so afraid of that she feels the need to handcuff and rough up a 115-pound mother of three just for coming near a school?

This sounds like something out of the old union-busting days in the 1920s, or even worse, past attempts to stifle free speech on public school campuses.

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Sat Aug-18-07 07:12 PM
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1. Hurricane coming.

Perhaps there's a reason.

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Sat Aug-18-07 07:15 PM
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3. I have no idea what that means

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Coexist

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Sat Aug-18-07 07:37 PM
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5. The hurricane is headed towards Texas - maybe as punishment?

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Sat Aug-18-07 07:13 PM
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2. Yeah, we're a right to slave state

I'm a school counselor and have been back at work two weeks. I still don't know, and will not know, my salary for the year until mid-September. Working, and not knowing what you're making. To me, there's something un-American about that.

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Sat Aug-18-07 07:17 PM
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4. If the Amercan people have a clue, they will rally to this cause.

Edited on Sat Aug-18-07 07:17 PM by BleedingHeartPatriot

If labor unions have a clue, they will go lean and mean and get the collective voice out there.

MKJ

again, I say, I say, just my dos centavos.

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Sat Aug-18-07 07:41 PM
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6. Today's Texas Insanity

Every day it's something new and jaw-droppingly assinine from Texas.

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Sat Aug-18-07 07:41 PM
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7. I know - but I can't talk - I am in Florida.

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Sat Aug-18-07 09:21 PM
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8. bizarro world gone wild.

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Lifelong Protester

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Sat Aug-18-07 09:33 PM
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9. I'd like to be just kidding but I'm not...

did they label her an 'enemy combatant' or 'foreign agent' so they could put her in the slammer with no habeus corpus? Sounds like that's next, folks.

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Sun Aug-19-07 12:27 PM
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10. I'm just curious about the power of a superintendent ? Can

Wanda weild that much power? Or the better question is why?

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