Give Hoffa an apple and a denim jumper, and basically you get a CTA union steward.
Tracy Radich, the newly elected Sergeant at Arms for Cleveland Teacher’s Union, is seriously pumped. She feels like the union finally elected a group of executives who will meet the needs of teachers. This new group, led by Dave Quolke, will start at the end of April. But if Radich had her way, they’d take control this week.
Apparently there’s been mumbling among teachers that the leadership team of current president Joanne DeMarco tended to stay in their comfy confines on West 6th Street too much. …
This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2008.
We should kick the whole damn union out of the schools.