OEA 2015 Collective Bargaining

Conference

Anti-Union and AntiPublic Education Forces

The National Picture

We

are fighting on many fronts:

Attacks on Unions
Attacks on Public Employees
Attacks on Public Education and

Teachers
Attacks on ESPs

Attacks on Unions

Attacks on Unions
Right

To Work
Paycheck Protection
Loss of Collective Bargaining Rights

Attacks on Public
Employees

Attacks on Public
Employees
Pension

Reform Efforts
Loss of Local and State Government
Funding
Terms like Austerity and Shared
Sacrifice

Attacks on Public
Education

Attacks on Public
Education
Charters
Vouchers
Privatization
Accountability

Testing/Evals)

(Standardized

Attacks on ESPs

Attacks on ESPs
Outsourcing
Layoffs
Increased

Jobs

Workloads

The Answer to the Problem

is:
Bust

Unions
De-professionalize Education Careers
Standardize Learning
Privatize Schools
Eliminate Public Influence on
Decisions
So Who Benefits?

Who Benefits?

Who Benefits?
Someone

has to run all those charter

schools.
Someone

has to write/grade all those

tests.
Someone

services.

has to provide outsourced

They Dont Even Try to

Hide It!

How They Make it

Happen
A

State Example: New Mexico

How They Make it

Happen
This

is Susana Martinez, NM
Governor since 2010.

Since

her election, New

Mexico has implemented new
laws which: Create an A-F
School Grading system,
approve and fund a huge
Pearson-connected virtual
charter, increase standardized
testing dramatically, and
overhaul teacher evaluations.

How They Make it

Happen
Gov.

Martinez in secretly-recorded
meetings:
During the campaign, we cant say it, I
guess, because its education, but I really
keep going back to that . . . keeping the
teachers from feeling the pain when they
already dont work, you know, two and a
half months out of the year or three
months out of the year but earn salaries
at the same rate of people who do work

How They Make it

Happen

This is Hanna Skandera,

Martinez choice for SecretaryDesignate of Education

Hanna was a fellow at the

Hoover Institution at Stanford.
The conservative organization
advocates for individual,
economic, and political freedom
as well an emphasis on private
enterprise

She also is a member of the Jeb

Bush-founded Foundation for
Excellence in Education (FEE),
which advocates for private

How They Make it

Happen
A

look at just one companys reach

in NM:

How They Make it

Happen
If

we
zoom
out, we
find a
tangled
web of
influenc
e and
money.

How They Make it

Happen
Ohio

Is No Different!

Who Stands in Their

Way?
We

do!

Who Stands in Their

Way?
Where

we spend our
money matters:

The Waltons have long supported efforts to privatize education

through the Walton Family Foundation as well as individual
political donations to local candidates. Since 2005, the Waltons
have given more than $1 billion to organizations and
candidates who support privatization. They've channeled
the funds to the pro-charter and pro-voucher Milton Friedman
Foundation for Education Choice, Michelle Rhee's proprivatization and high-stakes testing organization Students First,
and the pro-voucher Alliance for School Choice, where Walton
family member Carrie Walton Penner sits on the board. Peter
Dreier, Professor of Politics at Occidental College

Who Stands in Their

Way?
We

will never have the money of the

Koch brothers or the Waltons, but we
have family, friends and neighbors
who want their child to have a
quality education.

They

are attacking globally. We have

to fight back locally!