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Read ‘Em and Weep

I put in a phone call to the Indiana State Teachers Association yesterday asking for a reaction to the state Department of Insurance order regarding the Union’s administration of its health insurance and long-term disability funds. 

Oddly enough, no one returned my phone calls.  So I figured the least I could do is let you read the order for yourself and draw your own conclusions.

ISTA Final Order

By the way, I’m hearing this morning that the FBI maybe looking at the ISTA over its accounting practices regarding its health insurance trust funds.  This is going to get interesting.

 

Posted: 05|14|09 at 6:36 am by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
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  • pascal

    ISTA is one enterprise that the citizens would be better off without. It is nearly a criminal enterprise and its main effects are harming.

  • Jacob

    Pascal, Could you elucidate on the criminal part with an example?
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    In terms of moving forward, as a former ISTA member, I would be happy if the State took control over some aspects of bargainning (create a baseline pay, advancement protocols, insurance, etc.) and left local school boards to deal with discipline, schedules, etc.

  • Shorebreak

    So… the FBI is investigating ISTA yet there’s been no investigation or prosecution surrounding illegal peashake activity, which involves RICO, money laundering (corruption in finance/banking), altering police records, interference by elected officials of police investigations, and much more.
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    Don’t you just love selctive justice? Who ever said that crime doesn’t pay? The problem ISTA is facing seems to be that they followed the model established by others, but they didn’t include the right people in the cut. They may pay dearly for that misjudgement.

  • Think Again

    Shore raises a good point. Selective prosecution always makes us scratch our heads.

    Jacob, ignore pascal. He’s one of several who cannot wait to bash teachers or the ISTA.

    Everything he knows he learned from a teacher. Which is kinda scary.

  • pascal

    In English Common Law unions were (as can be clearly seen even now)considered as conspiracies against the public. Having dealt first hand with ISTA machinations I know that the public interest comes long afterwards in their calculations. Alas, with Think Again, one has to considerably unlearn what one is force fed by incompetent SAT bottom dwellers. It is not a bash to note elementary education major’s average SAT scores. As to bashing ISTA imagine how much better IPS would be without them.

  • Taxpayer 834512

    From watching the losing end of school board elections, I respect and loath the budgetless, fear-mongering, “it’s for the kid’s” gall the ISTA musters. But, Jacob’s delegation of power sounds intriguing.
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    I’m refraining from similar, screaming examples of this mentality.

  • pascal

    The goods the public desires need not be AT ALL delivered by incompetent government employees. There is no need for ISTA or the false stalking horse of “administrators” who are also incompetent government employees.

    Is GM better off with the UAW? Is IPS better off with the ISTA? Answer that question sometime after thinking again about it.

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