Quote Originally Posted by Centurion1 View Post
I love and hate the teacher's union. However, i still consider it to be one of the few unions still truly necessary to protect its workers rights. What they really don't like isn't competition why would you think that?
If the state is a right to work state, than the private schools will most likely have teachers much cheaper than those working for the public schools. This makes the public school teachers look wasteful and thus the public will likely demand for their benefits/wages to be on par with the private teachers. Now the union as a whole is much weaker and has lost a large amount of potential money from its base. Introduce competition in the labor market and the market will naturally depress the wages, it's how it works for every sector.

I agree that the Teacher's Union is still worth keeping around though.