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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. | 
	
 unless by "interest of individual teachers," you mean the "interest of union board members" you don't get how unions work.
the people who run a union have their phony baloney jobs secure with the way things are; why let someone start playing around with seniority?