Republican Platform Seeks to Weaken Power of Unions

Platform Calls for Getting Rid of Teacher Tenure

The Republican Platform calls for numerous steps that could significantly weaken America’s labor unions — public-sector and private-sector ones — and help speed organized labor’s overall decline.

The platform states, “Rigid tenure systems based on the ‘last in-first-out’ policy should be replaced with a merit-based approach that can attract fresh talent and dedication in the classroom” (p.36).

Read entire article by Steven Greenhouse of the New York Times.

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