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Letter: ?Teachers would ?benefit from unions

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

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