You’d think that a union, where the workers unite against their oppressive employers, would be in favor of its own employees unionizing.  However, unsurprisingly, that’s not the case.  When it comes to the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), the union that’s made firing teachers nearly impossible in New York, union president Michael Mulgrew prefers to run the union’s office like his own private fiefdom, and when Jim Callaghan tried to unionize, he got fired by the union chief himself.  Talk about hypocrisy!

“I told him I want to have the same rights that teachers have,” said the 63-year-old Callaghan, from Staten Island, New York.  “He told me he didn’t want that, that he wanted to be able to fire whoever he wanted to.  This is the exact antithesis of what they preach, and Michael Mulgrew is the biggest hypocrite out there,” added an angry Callaghan, who had been a union speechwriter and newsletter staff member for 13 years.  It’s shameful, and it also might be cause for the National Labor Relations Board to move in and punish the union for its union-busting.  (He’s also filing an age discrimination lawsuit.)

It’s ironic, but it’s also not surprising.  What’s good for the goose is never good for the gander, especially when it comes to corporate America.

Image:  UFT website

Tags: UFT, Michael Mulgrew, Jim Callaghan, United Federation of Teachers, unions, union employee fired for trying to unionize union employees, union busting, anti-union action taken by union, National Labor Relations Board

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