From start to finish, last week’s American Federation of Teachers national convention was all about keeping a Democrat in the White House — and educational choice off the agenda.
It started with AFT chief Randi Weingarten’s over-the-top rant against Donald Trump and ended with Vice President Kamala Harris thanking the delegates for her very first union endorsement in her sudden run for the top job.
Video of Weingarten’s remarks show her gesturing wildly, screaming and shouting as though she were at a revival-tent meeting, not a gathering of teachers.
Then again, AFT delegates are pretty radical-left these days: They offered a host of resolutions calling for a cease-fire in Israel’s war on Hamas, the end of US military aid to Israel, protecting anti-Israel campus protesters, condemning the way the United States is supposedly “enabling genocide” in Gaza and and blaming “far-right” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for “prolonging” the war.
Wiser heads quashed those resolutions in committee, so delegates only OK’d one calling for an AFT statement that envisions “a democratic future where Israelis and Palestinians can both live in dignity, with peace and self-determination for all.”
That is: The union doesn’t want to muddy its Stop-Trump drive.
Just because people are in a union doesn’t mean they lack family values. The problem is leadership. Many union leaders know what is right but they just don’t know how to break tradition.
We all know what kind of “family” Randi Weingarten has. Just her and her lesbian lover. You can look it up.
Traditional bullying is a hard to break habit.
Professional bullying is even harder.