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WEAC (Largest Wisconsin Teachers Union) issues layoff notices to 40% of staff
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | August 15, 2011 | Erin Richards

Posted on 08/15/2011 11:07:59 AM PDT by UB355

WEAC issues layoff notices to 40% of staff By Erin Richards of the Journal Sentinel Aug. 15, 2011 12:02 p.m. |(114) Comments

Layoff notices have been issued to about 40% of the Wisconsin Education Association Council workforce, a total of 42 employees who work for the state's largest teachers union, Executive Director Dan Burkhalter confirmed Monday.

Burkhalter said that the layoffs and other budget cuts at WEAC are a result of Gov. Scott Walker's "union-busting" legislation.

“Right now we’re engaged in membership continuation campaigns," Burkhalter said in a statement. "We’ve made steady progress in signing up members and we anticipate further progress will be made as the school year resumes. Despite budget cuts and layoffs, our goal remains the same: to be a strong and viable organization that represents the voices of Wisconsin’s public school employees.”

The organization has been working to stay relevant in a time when state legislation has severely clipped the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public workers. The legislation makes it illegal for local teachers unions to electronically deduct dues from the payroll of teachers, and local unions also have to hold re-certification votes.

The Wisconsin Association of School Boards estimates that about 275 school districts in the state are working outside of collective bargaining agreements and subject to the new legislation. About 150 or so districts are operating under contracts that were extended with their respective unions before the legislation passed.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: teachersunion; unions; wisconsin; wisconsinrecall; wisconsinshowdown
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To: listenhillary

- Imagine that. They’re having trouble getting union members to voluntarily send in union dues.

When you sever the root, the weed dies ... but not without a fight.
In the long run, the garden prospers.

Just my 2 cents.


21 posted on 08/15/2011 11:22:47 AM PDT by Nonsense Unlimited
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To: UB355
Dumbasses spent $30 million on those recall elections.

Maybe they could have kept some teachers employed with that money.

These people are parasites.

22 posted on 08/15/2011 11:22:58 AM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: UB355

and the lack of funds could not have anything to do with the millions of dollars the teachers union pumped into the recent elections, could it?????


23 posted on 08/15/2011 11:23:40 AM PDT by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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24 posted on 08/15/2011 11:24:33 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: UB355

If all the union’s members across Wisconsin would just donate five dollars a week, all these folks could keep their jobs.

But then libs never want to part with their OWN money.

Solidarity! /s


25 posted on 08/15/2011 11:25:18 AM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: joe fonebone

Exactly the union bet on the Supreme Court election recount and the recall elections and lost again !!!


26 posted on 08/15/2011 11:26:16 AM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Funny thing is they were dead set agains the State laying off anyone because they were broke, so what do they do when they get broke??????? They lay off people.

When the shoe is on the other foot it doesn’t fit so well.


27 posted on 08/15/2011 11:26:28 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Night Hides Not

“Had the unions not blown all that money on recalls, those people would not have to be laid off.”

That is probably much closer to the truth than the reason they are citing.


28 posted on 08/15/2011 11:26:29 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: UB355

This is the week they stop auto-deduction from paychecks for union dues.


29 posted on 08/15/2011 11:26:42 AM PDT by Crawdad
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To: sickoflibs; UB355; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; DoughtyOne; calcowgirl; Gilbo_3; NFHale; ...

” Perfect jobs to ‘ship overseas’ “

LOLOL!!

How true!


30 posted on 08/15/2011 11:30:58 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: UB355

That $35 million the unions blew on their failed recall efforts would have paid a lot of union salaries. Oh, well....


31 posted on 08/15/2011 11:32:48 AM PDT by kevao
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To: sickoflibs

Only 40%? Oh well... It’s a start.


33 posted on 08/15/2011 11:35:24 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (The Destroyer is anti-US, the West, Christian, Israel, banks, W.S., Corps, & the free enterpr systm.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Do the fast food joints really have 6 month training periods? Things sure have changed since I was a high school burger flipper! (McDonald’s, $0.15 hamburgers).


34 posted on 08/15/2011 11:35:53 AM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November (2012) from my house.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; sickoflibs; UB355; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; DoughtyOne; calcowgirl; ...

Likin’ them there Wisconsinites more and more every day...


35 posted on 08/15/2011 11:35:57 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

” Dumbasses spent $30 million on those recall elections.

Maybe they could have kept some teachers employed with that money.

These people are parasites. “

Uh....more like gangster scum.


36 posted on 08/15/2011 11:36:32 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: UB355

And the schools won’t even miss a beat.


37 posted on 08/15/2011 11:37:04 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: UB355

I bet they are glad they spent all that money on the recall elections.


38 posted on 08/15/2011 11:38:53 AM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: UB355

Naturally, the reporter blames Walker and ignores all the money the unions wasted on recall elections.


39 posted on 08/15/2011 11:42:05 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: NFHale

I thought the state was supposed to be heavily Leftist, Democrat. I’ve been taken aback by the events up there.

Excellent.


40 posted on 08/15/2011 11:42:24 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (The Destroyer is anti-US, the West, Christian, Israel, banks, W.S., Corps, & the free enterpr systm.)
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