Posted on 08/14/2022 12:06:03 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A Minneapolis teachers union contract stipulates that white teachers will be laid off or reassigned before “educators of color” in the event Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) needs to reduce staff.
After the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and MPS struck a deal on March 25 to end a 14-day teacher strike, the two sides drew up and ratified a new collective bargaining agreement complete with various proposals.
One of the proposals dealt with “educators of color protections.” The agreement states that if a non-white teacher is subject to excess, MPS must excess a white teacher with the “next least” seniority.
“Starting with the Spring 2023 Budget Tie-Out Cycle, if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the District shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population,” the agreement reads.
According to the United Federation of Teachers, “excessing” means “reducing staff in a particular school when there is a reduction in the number of available positions in a title or license area in that school.”
The agreement adds that non-white teachers, as well as those working in various programs, “may be exempted from district-wide layoff[s] outside seniority order.” The agreement also prioritizes the reinstatement of teachers from “underrepresented populations” over white teachers.
The stated justification for these measures is “to remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination by the District.”
“Past discrimination by the District disproportionately impacted the hiring of underrepresented teachers in the District, as compared to the relevant labor market and the community, and resulted in a lack of diversity of teachers,” the agreement adds.
The Star Tribune reports that the “seniority-disrupting language” of the agreement is one of the first of its kind in the entire United States. Teachers are normally laid off or excessed based on seniority alone, but the new agreement adds a racial component as well.
James Dickey, senior trial counsel at the Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC), says the racial component violates both the Minnesota and United States constitutions.
“The [collective bargaining agreement] … openly discriminates against white teachers based only on the color of their skin, and not their seniority or merit,” Dickey told Alpha News. “Minneapolis teachers and taxpayers who oppose government-sponsored racism like this should stand up against it.”
Dickey also urged “any Minneapolis taxpayer or teacher who opposes this racial preference system” to send the UMLC an email.
According to the Star Tribune, roughly 16% of MPS teachers with tenure and 27% of its probationary teachers are non-white, while more than 60% of students are non-white.
The White teachers can claim to be another Rachael Dolezel to avoid being laid off.
Kissing Black Ass reaches a new nadir
In the Top Two comments of the day.
And yet useful idiot white people still join unions. Ya just can’t fix stupid.
Reparations have been going on for decades now, it’s just getting more blatant.
I am sure this is illegal, however until a court stops it.
Get a F-ing rope.
Teachers of any color are usually dumb as stumps.
Social justice is never bad... Just ask O'Biden, he'll tell you..!
“Racism is alive and well.”
Do blacks have the instincts to become the dominant race in our emerging America? Listen to the music, see them all over tv being cool, see them commit crimes and not be prosecuted. It’s the jungle, and who knows how best to operate in the jungle.
This is a complement to the black culture and a warning to the weakening white culture.
Blatantly illegal.
I’m assuming those teachers are unionized, and that every teacher has to complete a certain number of years, and education accomplishments in order to have their rights vested. That probably means teachers achieve seniority in their positions, so if that’s true, then it will be interesting to see whether the white teachers who have seniority over black/hispanic/etc. teachers, are layed off first.
If asked, every teacher threatened with "excessing" should simply state that he/she is non-White! Problem solved!
I mean: What is the most they can do? Demand that the intransigent teachers submit to a DNA test?! Not legal!
Regards,
Reason #456,967 to not live in MN. We’re leaving happily in two weeks. Cannot wait. They also sent a radical progressive to victory for county attorney and another hack to county sheriff. Minneapolis is soon to become Detroit.
Exactly! The Liberal White Karen’s thought this would be good for Diversity and Equity...
Am having difficulty understanding your word-choice. What do you mean by "a complement" in this instance?
Regards,
Happy Trails!
Or they can say they're "racially fluid." That should drive the left up the wall.
Exactly. Any firing or layoffs by race would be discriminatory and I doubt a union-signed labor contract would excuse it.
It’s for the children!
When I went to work in uniform for New York State in 1980, I had the choice of not joining the Union. As well, many of the insurance coverages such as dental, and eye care are tied to the Union contract. At one point during my 25 year career, I signed a card that I didn't want to be a member of the Union anymore, and found out afterwards that despite signing that card, Union dues would still be deducted, and in the aftermath, I lost my dental and vision care coverage. I ended up joining the uniformed employees union again to get them back. I figured since they were still taking my money for Union dues, I might as well remain a Union member, and get my contracted benefits back. When I retired, I lost my dental and vision care since I was no longer employed by the State, and because I was no longer a dues paying member of the Union. They did have a retirement Union membership where you could purchase dental and vision care insurance through them, but after a year, I decided it wasn't worth it, and never renewed it.
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