I WON'T LET, OCCUPY LVTI DIE!

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME I'M WRONG. If I am right my ego will surely explode and I will develop a permanent stuttering stuttering problem from repeating "I TOLD YOU SO".

I heard the OCCUPY LVTI PROJECT has hit a few snags. ISN'T THAT SPECIAL. From what I hear, DR. LATHAM is throwing up road blocks talking of the need to HIRE teachers at $35 an hour to run ESL and ELL classes.Using the standard talking points she has blamed the UNION for impeding progress.

As I repeatedly warned to my NEW LYNN COALITION friends any belief that she would give up any measure of control was an illusion, a mirage on the educational desert that is LYNN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It was important to keep this OCCUPY PROJECT as revenue neutral as possible in order to serve the undeserved.

But by artificially inflating the cost, the oppressed can be kept in their place and more importantly to keep those that are oppressing in theirs. I am not quite sure I understand LATHAM'S union argument. Maybe some in its administrative level will back up the SUPERINTENDENT. The status quo always benefits those at the top.

OCCUPY LVTI was supposed to be a COMMUNITY CENTER not a COMMUNITY SCHOOL. It was about space, not degrees or diplomas. A place where people could come together, neighbor helping neighbor. I am not a LABOR RIGHT'S ATTORNEY but I am a retired ASCME UNION member, my father a retired TEAMSTER, and my grandfather fought to bring the UMW to the coal fields of WV. It's safe to say I got some union credentials.

I fail to see how using volunteers to run this thing is going to cost one union job because if the $35/hour cost is insisted on then the project will die a quick death and DR. LATHAM will have complete freedom from culpability, "I tried, but those DARN unions".

I would argue that the UNIONS don't own that building, the people do. By giving the UNIONS third person status, DR. LATHAM and  those union officials that would support her are only working to insure for the isolation of the members from the union.

At the end of the day we are all neighbors, union and non-union, just trying to survive in the same community.