A question for TN Duers

We've all heard of the reports of Wisconsin,but what you may not know is that there are plans to implement very similar anti-union policies here and I was just wondering if there any plans to organize to oppose it here? I can't get to Wisconsin but maybe I can help out here.

Be there or be square!

http://bceanow.org/2011/02/17/rally-in-nashville-march-5/

Best link I could find, the Wisconsin stuff is swamping the Google at the moment!

working against the teachers. It's very disheartening, but maybe this is what is takes for people to understand the GOP actually hates democracy.

their corrupt to the core. My Political Science teacher last year would often rant against them, calling them the most useless bunch of people ever assembled under one roof.

The proposals were released a day after the state's biggest teachers union, the Tennessee Education Association, sparred with legislators over a separate measure that would overturn a 1978 law that gave them the power to bargain collectively with school boards.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110218/NEWS02/102180352/Haslam-seeks-tougher-teacher-tenure-more-TN-charter-schools?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

Sad :(

I'm planning on writing a story on it for UT's Journalism Department's online news site.

:)

its act together was in 1946 in Athens TN and the men returning from WW2 came home and started the "Battle of Athens" and got rid of a political machine which had ruled for years and years. Unfortunately the machine was a Democratic machine and ever since East TN has been Republican. God could run for office as a Democrat and lose in East TN. If we could educate voters here we might make a difference.

But I just came off of finals hell week and might have missed reports.

at the MNEA the other day and she was the one who told me about the March 5th date. So far, that's all I've heard as far as anything for the general public goes. I did call my state rep and senator's office and thank them for their opposition to the measures.

One thing that Haslem is doing here is that it's piecemeal. Not like Walker in WI trying to do it all at once. HOWEVER, we all know that this is just the first step. They'll take collective bargaining rights away from teachers. Then next time, it'll be the rest of the government workers. And finally, it wouldn't surprise me for them to try and outlaw it for private industry too.