The answer is simple: teacher unions control essential resources for school reform. (educationnext.org)
They almost always overshadow business and civic groups, and they always overshadow parents, who are not organized (outside the PTA, which has long been under union control in politics) and who vote in low numbers. (educationnext.org)
The industrial relations regime could be dramatically redrawn this year with a potential relaxation of independent contractor laws that would further erode union control over the labour market. (afr.com)