Documents call for takeover of Capitol, using kids and taxpayer-funded public classrooms for protest activities, controversial “secondary boycott” tactics
The California Teachers Association is preparing for Wisconsin-type activities aimed at forcing the legislature to pass tax increases on Californians in a series of actions planned for next month culminating in a takeover of the State Capitol.
Many of the steps outlined in CTA plans include the use of students, taxpayer-funded public school facilities to which the union has access, and highly controversial “secondary boycott” tactics that involve targeting businesses in the districts of legislators who refuse to accede to union demands.
The union is conducting its actions in support of taxes under the guise of a “State of Emergency.”
Our team believes the true “state of emergency” is in public education’s crushing bureaucracy, lack of choices and options offered to parents, and bizarre union-supported work rules that produce phenomena like New York City’s infamous “Rubber Room” where the city’s worst teachers go because they can’t be fired.
Union officials were clearly caught off guard today when our team circulated links to the union’s plans, which were posted on a non-descript website online.
The CTA’s plans can be found here:
STATE OF EMERGENCY State Council Ideas for Action
This comprehensive 10-page outline of protest actions is a must-read. It includes the highly controversial secondary boycott, use of kids and classrooms to which the union has access, “letters home to parents,” use of parent-teacher conferences, and more. This document is not posted on the CTA’s State of Emergency website.
STATE OF EMERGENCY Plan of Action
Summary of the union plans leading up to and during the week of May 9. Includes reference to taking over the state capitol.
STATE OF EMERGENCY Leaders Guide
One page summary for leaders of union protests in the field
STATE OF EMERGENCY Member Flyer
One page document to mobilize CTA members
INTERESTING QUESTIONS TO ASK DURING CTA’S “STATE OF EMERGENCY”
How will taxpayer-funded public school classrooms and facilities be used by the CTA in carrying out these activities? Will taxpayers be reimbursed?
Is the union actually encouraging union members to invoke normal parent-teacher conferences about students to recruit parents into union protests?
When the union calls for sending letters home to parents, how will the union obtain the home addresses of those parents?
Will union members be using “sick” time to travel to Sacramento and protest? Doesn’t this prove the point that union contracts are out of balance, when “sick” time can be used when teachers aren’t really sick?
How much extra for substitute teachers will school districts be forced to spend while CTA teachers are busy protesting instead of teaching?
How many CTA teachers send their kids to private schools?
Why does the CTA believe parents should not have the option of sending their children to a parochial, private or non-public charter school if their local public school is failing?
If school choice isn’t necessary, why do so many inner city parents support it?
How many teacher jobs could be saved if Jerry Brown had a serious plan to reform public employee pensions?