The percentage of workers who belong to unions increased last year, according to the annual union membership report released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Some 311,000 new members joined unions in 2007, the largest single-year increase since 1979. Overall, the rate of union membership increased slightly to 12.1 percent last year, from 12 percent in 2006, reversing a trend of decline in recent years. AFL-CIO Now

Leo,
If we encouraged members in ’schoolwide bonus’ schools to support equal distribution of the $, there would be no problem. But since we did not, what are they going to look at? Well, many are good union people, and will try to divide equally anyhow. But principals will bring in… that same lousy data, and this: Since the bonuses were school based, the fundamental flaws of the DoE’s “value added” pilot project were not present… is clearly mistaken. There is probably even greater chance of raw numbers being abused.
-Jonathan Comment section of Edwize

But what to do about “reformers” (maybe we should rename them “deformers”?) who use their extraordinary power to rush through one after another measure that undermine such optimism about democracy?? They are on a different track entirely. Deborah Meier

What’s the moral here? Morality must be strictly adhered to by working people, while important folks like Saint Rudy can do whatever they want, however they want, whenever they want. NYC Educator