Below $70,000 is poverty in Massachusetts???? Or is this just a sop to the teachers' union dressed up as justice for teachers? (I already know the answer . . . .)
In Hillsborough County, FL, the teachers unions own the local government lock stock and barrel. They just forced through a referendum on the 2024 ballot last November granting the teachers a $6,000 pay hike for four years, total $24,000 through 2028.
Public school teachers in Hillsborough already make a lot of money for relatively few days worked annually. They are in the top ten percent of salaries in the county. You can’t work for Hillsborough and make less than $70,000 a year. No matter what your job is. Cost to homeowners for this ripoff is going to be over $400 million.
The referendum passed overwhelmingly, with votes by non-home-owning residents pushing it over the top. Hillsborough has dismal student performance rates on English and math evaluation exams, with less than 41 percent of students testing at the minimum standard.
The County Commission just rolled over for the unions. The county has 15,160 public school teachers who already have iron-clad employment contracts from the local government but they are also now represented by three public service employee labor unions in a “right-to-work” state.
Florida is advertised as a tax-free state, and it is, until you are stupid enough to buy a home here. Then you pay for every special interest con that comes down the pike and is greasing the local government. Can’t blame them. We have 447,000 stupid homeowners in this county who never learned how millage rates operate, and who never met a tax they didn’t like.