>>>Not unilaterally of course.
>>>The unions negotiate in effect with the same politicians the unions support.
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>>Not so in NY and NJ.
>>Don't know about other states but in NY and NJ they negotiate with locally elected school boards.
>
>Correct.
>Who cares more and works more about the local school board election than the teachers unions?

Great question.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/former-hamilton-township-nj-mayor-sentenced-38-months-prison-extortion-bribery-money
This woman was getting about $1million/year in commissions for insurance sold to the Hamilton Township school district.
She was doing that in several townships.
Not many teachers making that kind of money.
She financed Caribbean vacations for school board members, etc, etc
Do you suppose that she might have had a passing interest in school board elections?

It's convenient to tar the unions.
In one of my management roles I dealt with some pretty tough unions.
No union could ever match the power of management.


>Most non-teachers union voters get a lot more worked up about voting for president, and even governor, that about small local elections.
>
>>As far as I know, no union official, even in NJ, has ever put a gun to the head of a school board member and forced him to sign a contract.
>We are still talking New Jersey, right?