Randi the Mole

AFT's Randi Weingarten continues to cavort with the enemy, but that is because she is one of them herself.

She shoehorned her way into the AFT in order to kill it from within.

How in the hell did somebody this unqualified ever head a major union in the first place?

From the comments following the post is this description of her background which explains a lot:

I know people with lots of classroom experience who have spent decades analyzing what children need to learn to be successful in the long term, what good teaching looks like and how to support teachers. I am disappointed that Randi continues to be the voice for teachers when she is a lawyer, not an educator. I found some information on a blog called Linking and Thinking on Education by Joanne Jacobs. She writes this: ” How long did Weingarten teach? EDUCATION REFORMERS WOULDN'T LAST 10 MINUTES IN A CLASSROOM, SAID AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS PRESIDENT RANDI WEINGARTEN THIS WEEK. A lawyer turned union leader, Weingarten's classroom time was limited, counters Education Action Group. Weingarten's AFT bio claims she taught history at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn from 1991 to 1997. EAG obtained her personnel file via a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request. Weingarten was hired as a substitute teacher in 1991 and received a provisional license in 1993. In 1994, she received a certificate to serve as a substitute. A 1997 letter indicates Weingarten didn't submit documentation showing she'd met requirements for licensure. No record indicates she ever served as a full-time teacher or was evaluated by a principal or other school official. When Weingarten ran for president of New York's United Federation of Teachers in 1998, her opponent, Michael Shulman, suggested that she was not a "real teacher." "She worked five months full-time that I've been aware of, in 1992, at Clara Barton High School," Shulman was quoted as saying in the New York Times. Since then she taught maybe one class for 40 minutes a day. An education reformer with two years as a Teach for America teacher apparently has more classroom experience than the AFT leader.” When will the educators who have spent their professional lives learning about teaching be heard?

As I mentioned in the comments there, she was put in AFT to kill it from within.

Kind of like Obama was put in the Democratic Party to destroy it and further the elites' neoliberal agenda.