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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I never could understand their hostility to a scheme in which anyone who had seniority protections could keep them but people who wanted to take the cash could drop them. It seemed to me that they were working against their own interests, if by that you mean the aggregate interests of individual teachers, but that they perceived that they were protecting the institutional interests of the union, and that they may have perceived that this was essential to protect the long-term interests of individual teachers.
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That's a fundamental problem with unions, just like the differing investment timelines b/t management and investor/owners is a fundamental problem for profit-making corps. You can attempt structure around it, but (1) the union/management will tell you that it's against your interests to do so, and (2) it's hard to design a structure that both works and does not, in fact, damage the interests of the teachers/investors.
ps: the paternalism of unions is occasionally shocking.
