Posted on 02/08/2011 7:56:42 PM PST by khnyny
It is time to disband public employee unions. Waaay past time....
Unions! It’s what’s wrong with America!
If the city didn’t follow due process in dismissing the teachers, yes, its on the hook.
You just can’t fire someone protected by a contract. There are certain procedures that have to be followed before a firing is final.
It seems the city didn’t observe them.
I don’t know what to say. Here in Indiana I hear that the teachers are not liking evaluations.
http://www.wthr.com/story/13764624/governor-wants-revamped-indiana-teacher-evaluations
I totally agree
What’s the procedure when the paychecks bounce?
Disband them and outlaw them.
They sould be given another $75 million in punative damages too, big screen tv's, iPads and new cars too...........
Just because unions bankrupted the auto and airline industries, rigged elections, and built a federal bureaucracy that chased our high tech and manufacturing industry half way around the world is no reason to think they are not effective. In just a few decades, teachers unions have succeeded in putting the country of the Wright Brothers, Edison, and Steve Jobs into a world leader in turning out functionally illiterate high school graduates.
Well, if we get president with some balls, then he or she could pull an Obama and just throw out the contract, like Zero did for the GM bond holders. Law doesn’t mean much anymore.
And let me just say, poor black children are nothing but pawns to these sub-human union thugs.
It’s for the children
Where do the kids go to get their ‘education’ they have not received? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm??
You exaggerate. Why last year alone, DC turned out 18 High School Graduates who can read some! And you don't get results like this in a few decades. Teachers Union members have been working at this since at least the 1920s.
The Wright Brothers, Edison, and Steve Jobs were and are all white guys. To use them as examples could cause a loss of self-esteem among the "diverse" students of DC, not to mention their teachers.
Public employee unions are a bad thing.
“not to mention their teachers.”
Doggone it. Even the most lackadaisical teacher can’t help but let some smart alec kid abuse the system once in a while. Probably left a book laying around or sneaked out to make one of them “Teachers Gone wild” Videos.
The” judge” was chosen by the school district and the Union, meaning he was chosen by two parties that are allied in getting as much out of the tax-payers as they can. No one working for the district is out a red cent.
“No one working for the district is out a red cent.”
As we’re seeing around our area (northern NJ), the money handed to the teachers’ unions is simply taken from somewhere else in the district (we have property tax caps). Administrator pay is being targeted, as well as any other staff (clerical, etc.) not in the union. Hiring of new teachers has stopped dead, many non-tenured teachers have been let go, and many younger tenured teachers are on borrowed time; they are facing the fact that funds are finite, and we need less teachers because we have a smaller population. Many American taxpayers are fleeing the area, to greener pastures where there may still be jobs, a lower cost of living (read: less public employees’ union members), and maybe some other Americans.
File a grievance.
And when there is no power to run your air conditioner file a grievance.
And when there is no gas for your SUV, file a grievance.
And when there is no doctor to save your child, file a grievance.
And when there is no food on the supermarket shelf, file a grievance.
And as you slowly die of hunger, file a grievance.
And ponder all the good it's done you.
Union meet reality.
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