Posted on 02/17/2011 6:11:41 AM PST by Tennessean4Bush
NASHVILLE — The Senate Education Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to abolish collective bargaining between teachers unions and school boards across the state.
The vote was 6-3, with all Republicans on the panel voting for the bill and all Democrats against.
Sponsor Sen. Jack Johnson said passage of the bill — SB113 — will remove 'an albatross from around the neck of our school boards across the state' and remove a roadblock to education reform.
Democrats such as Sen. Andy Berke of Chattanooga said the bill is politically motivated and will do nothing to help the education of children. Berke said the report of a House Republican leader demanding more political contributions from the Tennessee Education Association last fall 'disgusts me.' TEA's lobbyist said the bill appears to be GOP political payback for the 52,000-member teachers group's support of Democrats.
The Senate committee made one notable change to the legislation before passing it and sending the measure on toward a Senate floor vote. As drafted, the bill declared that negotiations between a teachers association and a school board were prohibited. The amendment changed the word 'negotiations' to 'mandatory collective bargaining.'
Johnson, R-Brentwood, agreed to the revision, conceding that the wording could be interpreted to prohibit school boards from even talking to education associations. The intent, he said, is to allow boards to discuss things if they wish, but not to require negotiations over salary, benefits or working conditions.
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“The bill ... will do nothing to help the education of children.”
And teachers’ unions DO???
That's just a side benefit.
This is good.
YES! Eat it and die, unions. Free the children from the KGB operatives of the NEA.
You left out some letters...
Eat **it and die, unions. Free the children from the KGB operatives of the NEA.
All public employees unions should be banned from making political campaign contributions especially to any politicians who may have a vote on their salaries or benefits.
This is INCREDIBLE! It’s spreading...the governor of Wisconsin is facing a big showdown about this exact issue.
WTG GOP governors!!!
yep....and watch the Greek-like protests out of the teachers against these austerity measures....
We need more laws like this that the typical young, liberal, dolts do not understand.
EXCELLENT! We now have THREE states (two of them blue states) at war with the Communist public unions! Go Tennessee, Wisconsin and New Jersey!
“The bill ... will do nothing to help the education of children.”
And teachers’ unions DO???
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The post of the day!
How can you be so heartless in your comments? Don’t you realize that teachers are over worked (8-9 mos per year), get few benefits (excessive) and stark retirement benefit (extreme benefits)? Also, they grade papers their every waking moment...maybe some don’t sleep. Are they supposed to be a slave class??? My God...for the children.
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LOL! Ya think? You want to teach our children??
some people never learn that they have nothing to teach
This is excellent progress!
I have been proud of Tennessee for yars now. It started when Tennesseans rose up and beat back the efforts of that lying scumbucket Don Taxquist to shove an income tax down Tennessee’s throat.
Congratulations to you and all of Tennessee.
By the way, is Phil Valentine still doing radio there? I was a regular listener when he had the morning show on WWDB here in Philly, circa 1997. He’s terrific.
Maybe now he State can actually affect getting the children educated and cut the outrageous costs these ommunist “teachers unions” cost the taxpayers.
He is still in Nashville. I live in Knoxville and don’t get to hear him very often.
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