If you’ve ever wondered what union busters say when they are advising employers, the title of this post is one example.  Art Levine attended a Jackson Lewis training where this and other gems were uttered. Levine wrote about it in the most recent In These Times.

A while back I helped Leo Casey with some blogging about the New York Charter School Association’s union busting activities, done in conjunction with the Atlantic Legal Foundation. ALF was the conduit to bring in a union busting consultant to talk to charter school managers. I've had harsh words for the people involved in NYCSA. You might recall that the union buster that NYCSA used was Jackson Lewis. Check out Levine's article to get a sense of how labor law can be folded, spindled and mutilated. For the people involved over at NYCSA, this is another reminder that these are the sort of stains that you don't wash away with soap.  Luckily there are signs that NYCSA's efforts in the empire state aren't paying off. More on that later. (Via Yglesias. But see also James Parks at AFL-CIO Now)

While I'm at it, if you care about the social contract, then it's pretty likely that nothing being done in the last couple of days on No Child Left Behind was as important to you as what's happened on the picket line at General Motors.   Based on what I'm reading about the tentative agreement, I'm reminded that sometimes it's better for a union to risk losing a fight than not show up for it.  Mike Hall at AFL-CIO Now has more on how the issue of good jobs is at the core of the discussion. And Trapper John at Daily Kos has a great post on the healthcare piece.  He also looks at how the UAW made it possible for his dad to go to college. In a time when famillies are increasingly on edge (and really, check out the whole series if you haven't already), this is still what it's about. And it's why charter school managers shouldn't be taking advice from people telling them it's o.k. to lie to their employees.