{"id":15886,"date":"2016-03-31T14:41:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T19:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=15886"},"modified":"2016-04-02T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T21:31:15","slug":"swordsplowshares-31-public-employee-unions-are-cracking-the-whip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=15886","title":{"rendered":"Swords\/Plowshares 31 &#8211; Public Employee Unions are cracking the whip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=15661\">Disclaimer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First the Unions in Duluth pushed the Red Plan for construction jobs at the eventual expense of a hundred teaching jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Public Employee Unions are flexing their muscle to prevent ISD 709 from getting back some state money for its useless Central High School.<\/p>\n<p>Its as though they are telling local pols: &#8220;We got you elected now bend to our will.&#8221; Both Representative Simmonds and Jen Schultz have issued proclamations aimed at curbing Charter Schools. Education Minnesota has sent out a dubious flyer to Duluth&#8217;s teachers telling them that the Central Sale will doom America. You could almost be forgiven if you thought Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was running for Mayor of Duluth.<\/p>\n<p>As near as I can tell 80% or better of Duluth thinks saving Central High School from the wrecking ball and selling it to the Duluth Public Schools Academy is a sound, sensible, kid friendly decision. This clamor for the sale to go through is prompting a lot of union hysteria. <\/p>\n<p>Where will the unions be when ISD 709 starts swallowing annual recurring deficits and a frustrated public refuses to pass operational levies? <\/p>\n<p>Just asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer First the Unions in Duluth pushed the Red Plan for construction jobs at the eventual expense of a hundred teaching jobs. Now the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15918,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions\/15918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}