Let me start by disclosing the following. I am an active member of the National Education Association, a teachers’ union. And I resent the way the question was phrased.
As I write this I do not have access to a transcript. Basically the question set up an erroneous situation, that businesses give bonuses for better performance, and the teachers unions are standing in the way of doing the same in school, what’s wrong with such an approach. And the followup was whether there was anything the candidates disagreed about with the unions.
Before I became a teacher I spend more than two decades working in data processing, including as a manager. a bit more than a third of my time was in local government, the rest in the private sector. I am now in 13th year of public school teaching. I have also been a salesman. I think I have an appropriate background to respond to this issue. And whether or not you agree, I intend to.