The old arguments won’t work this time for United Teachers of Dade (UTD).
For a change, it isn’t the amen chorus in the mainstream media or the politicians’ bought and paid for with decades of union money UTD’s leaders have to convince. It’s the educators whose legitimate workplace concerns have consistently been ignored while the union used millions of their hard-earned dues dollars to line their own pockets and fund a diverse collection of failed liberal candidates and causes at the local and national level.
Even before conceding in mid-December what an independent audit had already confirmed − that less than 60% of those being represented by UTD thought enough of its services to actually pay for them − union president Karla Hernandez-Mats was in full cliché mode.
“Our collective strength will be the defense against these attacks,” she thundered. “And through our…
