TO THE EDITOR:
In “It’s ‘Labor Day,’ not ‘Union Day,’” Mr. Mix conveniently excluded the perspective of hundreds of North Carolina teachers who recently moved from our “right-to-work” state to educate children in states where teachers unions guarantee that workers will enjoy more secure and well-compensated careers, and where union dues provide a significant return in wages, job security and retirement on a small investment.
Surely, the return that unions provide on that investment is a financial scenario Mr. Mix and the corporations that fund his anti-worker’s rights group might appreciate, if it were not exacted at the expense of their plans to privatize our public education system.
Prof. Henry Veggian
Department of English
