I donât think my disdain for public employee unions is a big secret. Iâm on record calling them anathema a few times. So it warms my heart to see that the University of Vermont of all places rebuffed the local National Education Association (NEA) affiliateâs attempt to unionize them. They had been trying to get this done for the past three years.
Not only did NEA lose in their attempt to unionize the 779 office workers at the University of Vermont, they were utterly destroyed in the vote 443-189. The Burlington Free Press called this a stunning defeat. Itâs not the type of defeat that Iâd expect to happen in Vermont.
Iâm sure theyâll eventually end up unionized like it seems the rest of the campus faculty and staff are, but at least the NEA this time around wonât be the ones to do it.
I wonder how much this venture cost them. This has to hurt considering theyâve been bleeding members.  They’ve got to be pretty desperate with less money to line the union bosses pockets and to pay off politicians with.