Opponents of teachers’ unions in the United States are all too familiar with union-bullying, but anti-union teachers in Mexico have been victims of some of the worst union bullying you’ll ever see.
The Quint reports that school workers in Comitan, near the Guatemalan border, were bullied by a rogue faction of the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educacion, Mexico’s national teachers’ union. Members of the union forcibly shaved the heads of teachers who defied its strike and went to work. The strike-breaking workers were then forced to walk through the town without shoes, wearing signs that said they were “traitors to the country.”
The school workers say they had to work and break the strike to ensure they wouldn’t be fired under new teacher evaluation policies passed in 2013.
The union has been on strike since May 15 to oppose the 2013 reforms.
(hat tip to Mike Antonucci of the Education Intelligence Agency)
Jason Russell is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
