KIPP's Union

Andrew Rotherham:

There has been a lot of commentary about this NYT story about the unionization drive at the KIPP school in New York. Two quick points, which are both obviously open to debate.

First, I don't know exactly what is or is not happening at the school. But, isn't this one possible counter-hypothesis to the assertions in the story: This school is populated with a lot of people -- on all sides of the issue of whether or not to unionize -- who care deeply about kids, care deeply about the school and its mission, and are going through this process for the first time? In other words, there is an assumption that this is Wal-Mart or some other entity with a track record of and skill set for fighting union drives when in fact it may just be a case of people fumbling through a new and complicated situation.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 12, 2009 1:01 AM
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