When unions wonder why the public has turned against them, it is cases like this that serve as a prime example.
Parents in upstate New York have a reason to outraged (as well as concerned for their childrens’ safety) when a union spends members’ money to fight to keep a bus driver on the job after testing positive for pot.
A Shenendehowa school bus driver fired after testing positive for marijuana must be returned to the job, an appellate court has ruled.
The state Appellate Division split 3-2 in reversing a Supreme Court decision.
A district driver for nearly 10 years, Cynthia DiDomenicantonio was fired November 10, 2009. Her union, the Civil Service Employees Association, challenged the dismissal, and an arbitrator who heard the case ordered her reinstated without six months of back pay. The district was told to provide follow-up testing and substance-abuse counseling.
The state Supreme Court reversed the order, and CSEA appealed. In a decision dated Thursday, Judges William E. McCarthy, Robert Rose and Leslie Stein ruled the lower court should not substitute its judgment for the arbitrator’s. [Emphasis added.]
As unions continue to fight for the lowest common denominator in the workplace, the cream of the crop will continue to become more resentful as their dues money is used to defend the worst among them.
In this case, the workplace happens to involve children and parents. The union’s usage of members’ dues to defend a person who was very likely violating multiple workplace rules is indefensible.
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“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776
