>In the California city I lived in, Orange, the school board kept turning down union demands for raises, saying they did not have the money.
>The union pushed their own candidates in an off-year election and got a majority on the school board.
Yes.
Pause for a minute, however, and take a deep breath.
Was the union the problem, or was it a system that begs the union, or anyone for that matter, to exploit it?

The administrators know that if the teachers get a raise, they'll get one.
Guess who's negotiating teacher contracts on behalf of the school boards???

A key source of the grief lies in the elite universities.
They are the ultimate monopoly.
Princeton, for example, admits fewer than 6% of its applicants each year.
The numbers for Harvard and Yale are even lower.
How would you like to be running a business where you could turn down more than 90% of your deals?
On Long Island, there are district superintendents making high 6 figures and riding to work in chauferred limos.
Why?
Those chaufer-driven leeches are trading on their connections to their leech buddies in the elite schools.
Most elite university presidents are making 7 figures now.
If these universities were corporations, they'd have been broken up on anti-trust grounds decades ago.

They love it when you villify unions.

Wake up, Michael.
You have nothing to lose but your chains.