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.
Obama’s “ Deep $hit Bus Tour “
LOL!
A progressive union dues schedule. Brilliant! Why shouldn't those who benefit most from the union pay more of their fair share? I hope some union guy suggests this, watch the hypocritical unionistas squeel.
“WEA Trust is sitting on $400 million in cash.” Could you educate us a bit about this?
Just what I figured. Thanks for the breakdown.
Lord I hope we get this in Ohio this November. My husband and I collectively pay $1000/year in union dues. If we had applied that money each year from the beginning to our 15 year mortgage, our home could be paid off two years early! Two years off of a 15 year mortgage instead of union dues.
42?? That’s all??
Try factory jobs by the thousands thanks to union demands...
I’m not weeping a tear for them. Unions will suck you dry and spit you out without thinking twice about it.
I like “Rolling Blunder” bus tour.
It’s outstanding.
Lots of factory jobs in the South have disappeared over the last 20 years. Most were non-union shops.
The loss of manufacturing jobs in this country is more than high union wages. It is the result of multinational corporations, Wall Street, and the federal government using the “free trade” banner to deliberately transfer industrial capability from the US to China, Mexico and third world nations at the expense of the American middle class. For many of the products sent overseas, manipulation of the Chinese currency by the Chinese is responsible for more of the cost differential between US products and Chinese products than the labor rate.
Moving US middle class jobs overseas part of the globalist redistribution of wealth. Republicans (the two Bushes) have been just as complicit as Clinton and Obama.
Ping to some really really great news.
Best news I’ve heard in forever!
Bodes well for tomorrow’s election!
WOO HOO!
This Walker kid....he’s alright. Wonder what his plans are circa 2016 or 2012?
Thanks. I should point out that that is not “cash” though but “assets”.
“...Wouldn’t that be a shocker. ...”
Nothing’s impossible to a willing mind, a strong heart, and a group of determined, pissed-off Patriots.
We’ll win this thing on way or the other.
Combination of loss of revenue (dues) and overexpenditure (on the recall elections). Typical Dem/left recipe for disaster.
Yeah, yeah, I know about that. I’m one of those statistics. That’s another issue.
I’m talking the manufacturing unions are a part of. Anything the union gets involved in jacks up the costs to unsustainable levels.
Has a good ring to it : )
Good point!
I wonder how many teachers will opt out of the union now that the union can’t steal the dues directly from their pay check. Not much point to being a closed shop is there?
I expect a big up tic in coercion by union goons in WI. They’re quite comfortable with thuggery.
...In 6 languages, no doubt!
It’s working!
Once they lost their legislated monopoly and had to face competition, they offered to cut their premiums by 40%.
This means they were overcharging by nearly 100%.
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