There are people in a lot of professions we'd probably like to do this for (and before you ask, I'd want a lot more than $10,000):
A Washington-based anti-union group hopes to "jump-start a conversation" about the difficulty schools face in getting rid of bad teachers - with a stunt that sounds as if it was designed for reality TV.
The Center for Union Facts on Tuesday will ask parents, students and other teachers to nominate the "worst unionized teacher in America." The center says it will choose 10 and offer each $10,000 to quit; "winners" must allow the center to write about them on its Web site. The center plans full-page ads today in USA TODAY and The New York Times.
This is just a stunt (bad teachers, too, would demand more than $10,000), but it's a pretty good conversation starter that pounds on an obvious point: Unions should be dedicated to getting rid of bad teachers but aren't.
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I agree that unions are far from what they were originally DESIGNED to be.
They are too self-effacing, and toss the rank & file a "bone" now and then to shut them up. And they never look to remove all the "dead wood" from their membership.
But hey, it's not like I was IN a union (yeah, I was..hated it)
B.G.