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NJ Teachers’ Union Thugs Protest At Student’s Home To Send Father A Message

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 25th, 2012 at 10:00 AM  | 

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In Delsea, New Jersey, the teachers’ union (a sub-chapter of the NEA) has been fighting over the amount of their pay increases (not decreases) since 2010.

On Valentine’s Day, according to NJ.com, the union teachers decided to make their grievance personal by protesting in front of the Delsea school board president’s home.

Unfortunately, the school board president was not home—but his children were, including his daughter whose teachers were among those protesting outside her home.

via NJ.com [emphasis added]:

While the group of teachers, support staff and aides – who have been in contract negotiations since 2010 – were demonstrating within the boundaries of the law, school board members are “appalled and disgusted” with the union’s call to picket in front of Mario Christina’s home while his children were present.

Christina, who had no comment following the incident, was not home when the picket line assembled outside his Chew Avenue residence. His daughter, whose Delsea teachers were among the crowd, was home at the time.

The leader of the union protesters, Union President Christine Onorato (who also teaches children at Delsea ), appears to be unapologetic about protesting in front of a student’s home.

“It was a simple expression of our democratic right to express our discontent of not having a contract,” she said. “This was something our membership expressed, and our negotiating team said … we are going to do it.”

Apparently, this teacher’s union thug finds targeting individuals at their personal residence a legitimate tool in the union arsenal—even if inside the home are students of the very teachers protesting outside.

To someone like Onorato, the student(s) inside the home she and her union thugs were protesting are mere collateral damage.

What exactly are these teachers teaching?… That it is acceptable for the mob to target individuals and their children if the mob doesn’t get its way?

Now, that’s a lesson worth remembering.

Related: Scranton teachers strike still on for Monday…

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“Socialism has no place in the hearts of those who would secure the fight for freedom and preserve democracy.” Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor, 1918

Cross-posted on LaborUnionReport.com

h/t:  Education Action Group

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  • Viet71

    n/t

    • radicalrighty

      n/t

    • bobandlor

      All teachers care about is how much they make and what their benefits are. That’s it!

      The single biggest mistake this country ever made was to let our children be educated by a unionized work force. It has finally led to a generation who believes in liberal fantasies who believes that they have something coming to them. They have become “Generation Entitlement”. Sad.

  • Locked and Loaded

    moral turpitude.

    I don’t know about New Jersey, but where I live, if there was the will to fire them, it could be done.

  • Tbone

    That would be beneficial.

    • acat

      Rock salt shells and a scattergun, maybe?

      Mew

      • sophillyjimmy

        New Jersey police are the equivalent to Hitler’s Brown shirts and even if you shoot them with rock salt you go to jail. The answer is to be kind and invite them in the house for some coffee and donuts then once through your threshold, blast them with 00 buck shot then they will think twice about invading someones home.
        I would think they need a permit to picket in a public area and I know it would be illegal if they are picketing on private property but since the police are also union members they will not enforce the law against union brothers and sisters.

    • SoFiMil

      Have a great weekend!

      : )

    • radicalrighty

      Reason 1,025 of why we must replace Obama with ANY any one of our candidates – then hound him to take back every single gain the unions have made under this Karl Marx-wanna-be.

  • demann

    You could probably get away with this in Houston or Austin, but out here in West Texas, we shoot trespassers and people that threaten our children. Why do you think NY, NJ, DC, Chigago and Detroit have so many gun laws? Castle Doctrine is Constitutional.

    Did these “teachers” have a permit to assemble in front of this residence or in this particular location?

  • RedRedhead

    There isn’t enough money for everyone to get what they want. I would love to see unions protesting each other over the share of tax money they get.

  • wantthegopback

    Nt

  • carolina

    That is REALLY going to help the union thugs with their “negotiations” NOT
    ha ha ha ha ha.

  • paulrobert

    Public unions: what an awful concept. Exploit a government monopoly (or quasi-monopoly) for a vital service (teaching our kids, public transportation, garbage collection, etc.), threatening the public with something really crappy if they don’t get what they want, while also pooling their money to elect politicians who will then confiscate more money from taxpayers and give it to the union members as a de facto quid pro quo.

    How wonderful it was when Reagan fired the air traffic controllers.

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    • paulrobert

      …(and unions generally, but particularly public unions)…well, that’s one of many times I wish Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had gotten together and bred another generation of leaders for us.

      (I mean that just as a sort of figurative fantasy; no disrespect intended to either of those great leaders or fellow admirers by the “breeding” metaphor.)

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  • greyeagle

    These individuals likely scared the children to death. The Police should have been called to remove them. These people don’t deserve any kind of consideration about anything. I imagine Governor Christie would take a very dim view of this incident.

  • fabio

    Children are not harmed by seeing protestors outside their home. What’s the worst that could happen? They see a nasty comment about their daddy? A curse word on a sign?

    It’s just speech. When conservatives adopt the thesis that speech — regardless of its content or appearance — can harm people, they are adopting a central tenet of liberalism.

    • streiff

      even when intimidating elected officials by intimidating their kids is the obvious objective.

      I’m sure there are people out there who agree with you, you just aren’t going to find them here.

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      you just smile and wave to them?

    • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

      Since the founding of the country, there have been labor-management disputes. While protesting is part and parcel of said disputes, for the most part, what occurred at the bargaining table stayed at the bargaining table.

      It is not until these last several years that unions have made targeting management representatives’ homes part of their intimidation model.

      While unions have the “right’ to do that, and I am not advocating passing a law to ban it*, the actions should and must be condemned. Moreover, to give it a free pass is to condone mob-like actions.

      * Though legal, as/if unions persist in making it personal, then they should not be surprised when they get hit twice as hard.

    • bmac438

      I wouldn’t say children are totally not harmed, but they are not harmed seriously by protestors outside. The proper way to address this is what we’re doing here … using our right of free speech to excorciate the protestors and turn public opinion against them. We do not want to stifle liberal arguments or bury these protests under a pile of permit applications. We want them to fully express how selfish and unthinking they are.

    • funwithknives

      is it worth it? Progressives use this hackneyed term all the blessed time but now it is used on this site and it’s no big deal over at Fabio’s Place.
      Who are You to say, it is not harmful? They are not your kids and you have ZERO idea of any extenuating circumstances.To assume is to make you a very one-sided Human Being.
      The Precautionary Principal is thrown about by The Left so often it basically becomes tiresome.But let be mentioned to curb Union Thuggery and their violations of Expectations of Privacy by a target of their ire and it’s: all bets off.
      Why just not run your sprinkler in the winter? One step onto my property to turn it off and The Games Would Begin!!!

  • dumpbho2012

    He stands up to the teacher union who is bleeding us dry. 70pct of the average property tax bill (highest in the nation by far) now goes to fund so-called education. Another 20pct goes to the do-nothing donut-chomping ticket-writing brownshirts. All of em cry together about having to pay a few bucks for their $5 copay Cadillac healthplans while enjoying lifetime job security and bloated pensions while the NJ private secter goes down the crapper. Keep the heat on, Gov, and don’t quit til the job of breaking these unions is done.

    • ariyosef

      Then let community decide if they like Lower Taxes~!
      Many school districts are cutting size & expenses

  • spolson

    I grew up respecting teachers as smart and dedicated. My brother is a teacher. As I grew and got smarter myself i figured out that they were responsible for the demise of education. With all their smarts and education they didn’t see that the unions were:

    1. Just like the mafia and use the same methods.
    2. Have no interest in education.
    3. Ultimately have no interest in you.

    I have lost all respect for teachers. They support the democratic party as all unions do because the democrats give them power in exchange for votes. They support laws that hide they incompetent brothers thereby supporting substandard education and blame it on society and parents. I had teachers with tenure that literally read the text book to us and then gave us a test (included with the teachers addition) every week. That’s it. In my state the principles made more money than the Governor. They used to print a newsletter to the parents about the three month tours of Europe they took on summer break and then wrote articles about how poor they were on a teachers salary. That is not smart.

    I also feel sorry for them because that is what Unions do to people. They suck your will away. They compromise your ethics and morality. Make you greedy and selfish. I have watched it over and over. Teachers don’t go into teaching for the union benefits, but end up being all about them. Not teaching.

    • ihateliberals

      Unions aren’t just like the Mafia Unions are the Mafia but now under the protection of the US Government.

  • daylightsavings

    i challange any of you to walk just one week in a teacher’s shoes. then give some thought to what you write about the job they do.

    • ihateliberals

      We are against the Teachers Unions more specifically the NEA. The NEA is the worst thing that has happened to public education. If we could dissolve the NEA we could improve teaching and learning by t least 98%. Curriculum’s might actually be created by the people and not a Union that is looking for ways to get money. The NEA doesn’t care one bit about education other than the fact it is a necessary evil to their existence.

    • acat

      This is not about the classroom, this is about whether your union is justified in protesting at the homes of your students.

      Some of us see this as problematic .. and your rather bald attempt at trying to slither out from under it indicates you do as well.

      Mew

    • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

      What is your address?

      It can be arranged.

    • streiff

      or during summer vacation? Just curious

    • lineholder

      I can tell you his opinion. Every time he sees something of this sort happens, he very vocally expresses how glad he is to be out of the profession. Along with it come comments about how “teacher’s used to hold themselves to higher standards than this…they would never put themselves in this type of demeaning position”, etc.

      He’s right. I’m sorry, but this type of behavior is demeaning to the profession. There are plenty of ways to address problems or issues that are likely to be far more productive. And it IS the outcomes that matter most, isn’t it?

      The teacher’s Unions are NOT doing teachers any favors by instigating this type of behavior. They are turning people against you, setting an absolutely horrible precedent that is likely to carry over for years to come.

      Y’all want to stand up for yourselves? Fine. I’d suggest standing up to the Union first. At least then you can retain some self-respect.

      • uselogic

        Big reason I quickly got out of teaching. My colleagues’ lack of professionalism, lack of educational standards, increased union lemming-ism.

        • lineholder

          It’s very sad that so many of the more experienced teachers don’t seem to realize that they are driving away people who could be excellent teachers from the profession by the way they act.

          But as long as the Union tells them it is the right thing to do, eh? What happened to thinking independently? Don’t teachers do that any more?

  • papayapicker

    at a student’s house, it makes me wonder what treatment the student gets at school. Are the teacher not “educated” enough to know one of their students lives in the house. I recommend the students get together and picket the next meeting of the teachers union. Or, they can hold a sit-in in front of one of the picketing teachers’ classroom.

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      It’s so funny, given the anti-bullying campaigns, that this could happen.

      • lineholder

        and come up with alternatives that will provide all Americans with options other than the ridiculously LOW level of education our young people are getting in the public school.

        If the standards were high and our young people were learning basic fundamentals that would allow them to succeed in life, I probably would cut teachers more slack when they go off on a binge and make fools of the profession by acting like this.

        But when so many of our young people don’t have adequate levels of reading, writing and arithmetic skills…then as far as I’m concerned, teachers don’t have a leg to stand on in crying ‘poor me” about it.

  • renny

    four Dem. operatives of some kind on their way to Atlantic City for the day, and as I eavesdropped (well, they knew other people were sitting around them), they proceeded to moan and groan about Dem. prospects in NJ in Nov.
    They can’t stand that Christie is popular. He is “pulling rugs” out from under them. In many places, salaries are frozen or contracts are frozen–not that they were worried about those specifics–but they were worried those circumstances meant PENSIONS would not go up.
    They were predicting a couple mayors were toast and generally gloomy about their own futures, in whatever it was they exactly they did. Someone had won something on a Pick Six (lottery) ticket, and he was going to play those numbers today. But when they left, for gamblers, they didn’t seem particularly hopeful. Good.

    • kowalski

      .

  • norris

    Can we teach children not to be bullies?

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