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Hello, WarwickFreemason:

Allow me to introduce a couple of data points. There were 897 teachers reported by the school district last October. The contract as written provides teachers with the option of not joining WTU but paying "agency fees." The most precise count of teachers voting no-confidence was 400 to 500 from WTU president Netcoh.

So, essentially, 400 to 500 union teachers either did not vote or are not in the union. You may have noticed, that's not what "unanimous" means. Unless it means "unanimous among union members," which is still not a very good number. Unions were created to represent their members' interests, secure good wages, and provide workplace protections from management.

This is the "collective" part of "collective bargaining." By the simple math above, this situation seems more one of "selective bargaining."