State teachers union pitches tent with Occupy activists

Jill Tucker
Oct 13 at 3:33 pm

The California Teachers Association jumped on the Occupy Wall Street bandwagon Thursday, throwing the weight of 325,000 state teachers behind the movement for “tax fairness and against corporate greed.”

“Educators are fed up with watching our students and schools go without — while banks are being bailed out and the middle class and poor are being shut out,” said CTA President Dean Vogel, in a statement. “It’s time to put Main Street before Wall Street, and for corporations to pay their fair share of taxes.”

Catchy.

Teachers are part of that 99 percent who are tired of bank bailouts while college tuition increases and jobs vanish, Vogel said.

The state’s largest teachers union folks didn’t say anything about pitching tents at city halls, but they have now officially joined the growing ranks of left-leaning celebrities, labor unions, college students, hippies, the homeless and a wide range of others in supporting the national movement.