Posted on 02/20/2011 7:01:14 PM PST by milwguy
Madison public schools will be closed Monday for the fourth straight day, amid major demonstrations at the Capitol.
So many teachers have called in sick in recent days, to protest GOP Gov. Scott Walker's controversial budget repair bill, that Madison schoolchildren were told to stay home last Wednesday through Friday.
Numerous districts around the state, including the state's largest, the Milwaukee Public Schools, also were closed at various points last week.
Teachers, other public employees, and their supporters are outraged by the measure in Walker's bill, which would strip public workers of most of their collective bargaining rights. They call it an attack on unions.
Walker insists the move is needed to help balance the state's budget.
The closure of Madison schools Monday comes despite a call Sunday by the statewide teachers' union, the Wisconsin Education Association Council, for teachers to report to classrooms.
Monday is Presidents day anyway.
Monday is a HOLIDAY.
I read that Monday is President’s Day and a judge said they can wait till Tuesday to return.
By all means, continue to piss off the parents.
When I think of these public employees receiving $57.00 for every dollar they contribute to their pensions; it makes me furious.
That’s our money; not theirs and I want it back.
Under the governor’s proposal, unions still could represent workers, but they could not force employees to pay dues and would have to hold annual votes to stay organized. Only wages below the Consumer Price Index would be subject to collective bargaining, anything higher would have to be approved by referendum.
So what’s so bad about that? I have to give up more then they’ll ever have to.
These people act like they’re being required to donate a kidney. Sheesh!
It’s all Obama’s gang doing the incitement.
Impeach the dick-tater.
And here I thought the State Union President was performing miracles speaking thousands of “sick” teachers, so ill that for several days they couldn’t even work, So ill that physicians attending the rally could immediately determine that they were on near death-bed sick, healing these teachers by merely speaking them back to health.
I was ready to call the Vatican.
One nice thing we did learn though, the teachers don’t need the health benefits they currently receive. Apparently they are perfectly happy to have a serious debilitating illness diagnosed by a total stranger while standing in an open parking lot.
This should be a model for government employees.
The teachers when I was a kid NEVER missed a day! I would have loved to get a week off in the middle of a semester!
At what point can these teachers be fired, and who has the authority to do it?
Same question for wayward politicians.
The state Senate only needs 17 for a quorum for non-spending bills.
- Banning public employee unions isn’t a spending bill.
Add it to the calendar and see how fast the Democrats get back to Madison.
I want these parasites FIRED!! NOW!!. That is what our beloved Reagan did with those sorry Patco union thugs in the FAA . Crush them before they breed!!
Bet your butt if the Governor gets super tough he can have the socialism of Wisconsin disappear.
Trust me. They have SO overplayed their hand! Everyone is sick to DEATH of them already...and it’s only been five days, LOL!
They’re toast. The teachers, the unions, the Democrats in this state...
Dead as doornails. Come Tuesday when we can clean up from the ice storm that is currently upon us, our Legislature, led by Governor Scott Walker, will be ‘ramming through’ everything and anything we can! Concealed Carry. Voter ID. Illegal alien legislation, etc. We only need 17 votes. We have 20! The ‘Rats don’t even NEED to show up for work on Tuesday, LOL! Life. Is. Good.
— For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am REALLY proud of my [state] — Diana Michelle 0bama *SHUDDER*
LOL! :)
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