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[quote=Anonymous]I used to work as a Union negotiator. There’s a lot here you can unpack

- In general unions don’t care about what’s best for the members, they care about what’s best for re-election. Leadership can lose their position. 
- The absolute best way to get re-elected is to appear hard on management (in this case DCPS) about whatever the topic is. The degree to which you are right or wrong, and even whether you get any concessions is nearly irrelevant 
- WTU leadership likely stonewalled the teacher request because the message they wanted to echo to teachers was “We are tough on them for you! They don’t have good intentions! Vote for same leadership next time!”. Whether or not DCPS had good or shitty intentions to use the data, I can almost guarantee, wasn’t actually part of the decision process. 
- Unions do better when they tug on heart strings - with their own members and with the public; the purpose of the sentence about deaths is absolutely to leave the reader with a final thought about what could be. That’s not to say they are wrong (they aren’t - people could die after all), but they easily could have ended with “people could get sick” or the positive version of “we want people to be healthy”. They didn’t because that doesn’t stir emotion and fear. Instead, by focusing on death, when they release the document their audience (who isn’t me, you or even DCPS - that letter is written for their members) they can again look tough.

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