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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Jersey Jazzman: Is Corporate "Reform" Coming to Denmark?

Jersey Jazzman: Is Corporate "Reform" Coming to Denmark?:

Is Corporate "Reform" Coming to Denmark?

Does this sound familiar? A center-left government is pushing an unproven series of education "reforms," including longer school days and less time for free play, over the objections of many parents.  And to facilitate this, the government has gone out of its way to diminish the collective bargaining rights of teachers, insisting they work more hours without consultation from their unions.

Sounds like Chicago or Philadelphia or Los Angeles, right? Except this is apparently happening in, of all places, the socialist country of Denmark:
The lock-out of teachers in Denmark has ended after the Danish government intervened in the industrial action between the Danish Union of Teachers (DLF) and the municipalities’ association (Local Government Denmark – LGDK [KL]). The DLF is an affiliate of EI. 
“The schools have ended up in a very difficult situation, where teachers have been run over by the