Green Dot as a union buster: Is there a case? (Updated)

Steve Barr of Green Dot

In an earlier one of my posts on Green Dot and Locke High School in Watts, LA I tried to describe all the tensions and contradictions at play. Was Green Dot a union buster? Yes. Are the teachers who want to leave UTLA acting without reason? I don’t think so. Are there real conditions that drive Watts’ parents to support Green Dot? You bet there are.

Leo Casey who posts on Edwize addresses the issue:

Someone might take the trouble to read the Green Dot contract, and compare it what is done in non-union charter schools, including those which Rotherham faithfully promotes in his capacity as a board member of the union-busting New York Charter School Association.
The management of anti-union charter schools insist that the only acceptable standard of employment is “at-will employment,” under which an employee can be dismissed at any time for any reason whatsoever – good, bad or indifferent. Such a standard comes in handy when anti-union charter school managements want to fire teachers for such high crimes and misdemeanors as sharing with their colleagues information on salaries in district public schools and supporting their student’s desire to read a poem about Emmett Till during Black History Month.