Response to Sectori

By The Young Sentinel

Absolutely right, Sectori.

I don't care about how much athletes get payed. Their jobs are rough. It's their business. I am bothered when people complain about how much they get payed. Who cares? This issue is how to make sure that teachers, some of our nation's most under-appreciated heroes, get paid a living wage.

Another thing: teacher's unions (and unions in general) are a good thing for the country. We need to return to a national psyche when unions are appreciated for the good work that they do.
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At Wal-Mart, one corporation that fires union workers, store managers are, as a matter of corporate policy, instructed to shave down the hours of the workers on the store computers.

The company also refuses to give the workers health care, instead passing the bill to the government by helping them sign up for Medicare.

Meanwhile, Wal-Mart posts billions of dollars in profits quarter after quarter.

We need to invest in education partly so future generations can compete in high-paying, technology jobs. In the meantime, we must protect our workers from a world of big-business that values their own profits over the well-being of its employees.