Posted on 06/29/2005 8:03:01 AM PDT by Born Conservative
Without public comment or debate the Crestwood School Board unanimously voted for a motion that will keep its teaching staff.
About 100 residents and teachers crammed into the district's sweltering high school library for a vote that stopped the board from scrambling to fill 183 teaching positions by August. "It was a pretty smooth meeting," said Bill Jones, board president. "I think both sides were happy."
A June 14 letter from the union started the vote. The letter saying union members would be "unwilling to work" the new school year without a new contract. The board responded, calling the letter a "mass resignation" and threatening to vote on letting the entire staff go as of June 30.
The union issued a second letter June 20 that the board is calling a "rescindment" of the other note. The union maintains it never resigned its members, calling the second letter a "clarification."
Board members and the union would not say if the latest development in the heated Crestwood labor melee have harmed relationships between the two sides. "As far as I'm concerned its water under the bridge now that we have this other letter," said board member Gene Mancini Jr.
The union and the board have been at odds since the union contract expired in 2002. The main sticking points are health care, retirement benefits and salaries. Now, the board and the union have plans to go back to the negotiating table July 7. "We have only been to negotiations 16 times in the past three-and-a-half years," said Joe Chmiola, union president. "That's not a great ratio."
That ratio prompted Chmiola to issue the June 14 letter in an attempt to get the board back to the negotiating table, Chmiola said.
"If we spent eight hours in a room and they weren't able to leave something would happen," he said.
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Teacher union members - over paid and under performing in a school near you.
I'm not a union member, but that fits only a couple of teachers at my school. I'll look out for the ones you describe though.
This thread was rehashed to death eons ago so I won't spend much time here:).
from GladesGuru's homepage 1742 EDT June 29, 2005:I am an ecologist, have an independent research/education facility in the Everglades, and have presented research findings at scientific conferences indicating that revision of basic agency premises is overdue. A population vs. time study of vertibrates [sic - should be vertebrates] of Everglades National Park indicated that all species declined since the habitat was acquired by the Dept. of Interior. Only one vertibrate [sic - should be vertebrate] species increased as a result of the socialization of the swamp. What species did well? The population of ParkPersons underwent a remarkable irruption.
I can't imagine an ecologist who is unable to spell "vertebrate."
Regards from your local teachers' union.
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