Charter School Organized by Mass AFT

From our own Jim Snow in the Boston Globe:

Right to Organize Not on the Table
THANK YOU for your front-page story on the unionization of charter school teachers. The back and forth between the union and a phalanx of experts and advocates for charter schools was interesting, but the premise that the rights of workers - teachers in this case - to organize should be balanced against the latest fad in public policy is unacceptable. State law and international law, as well as the overwhelming body of human rights law and thought, establish the right to organize for mutual aid and protection.

Simply put, the failure of public educators to improve our public schools is not a reason to compromise this right.