She fired them all

The situation already looked explosive. A Rhode Island high school had a 50% failure rate in a depressed town with high unemployment and a median wage of $22,000 per family. The union representing the teachers, who averaged over $70,000 per year in income, refused the superintendent’s plans to improve the school by extending the work day by 25 minutes and requiring teachers to provide tutoring on a rotating basis. The superintendent summoned her inner Reagan and fired them all, from the administrators to the last instructor (via Instapundit):

Read on at HotAir.

This reminds me of Dan Proft's example of why Illinois isn't broken, it's fixed--Joliet, Illinois:

The average city employee’s salary is $83,500/yr. The average taxpayer cost per city employee once you calculate in the pension is $127,000/yr. And they make no contribution to their health care coverage and are not particularly interested in changing that. For comparison, the average household income in Joliet is $47,700.

We need to fire public officials and legislators who empower this kind of highway robbery. We can't afford this any more.

Public unions are the robber barons now.