It’s a lie to get us to allow a tax increase. Teachers are public employees and they have a massive union. They must be subject to layoffs just like “the people”.
Want to break the union? Force them to pick the teachers laid off and then give them unemployment from the union fund.
They must be subject to layoffs just like “the people”.
They have been getting layoffs for years. They are talking about having only 1 Science a year to save money by getting rid of Science Teachers. That was on Fox News this very morning.
In CA the teacher’s union refuses to lower their pensions and other benefits, preferring threatening layoffs. So the stimulus money they rec’d and claimed it saved jobs actually preserved the pensions.
Teachers don’t just have a massive union; they have their own political party. The “Democratic Party” is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the teachers’ unions, and Obama advocating for them while their employers (the American people) are being ground up by this economy is all the proof that you need.
Governor Walker’s recall issue did what Governor Christie did for NJ; it alerted people to just how much teachers were earning, and how much they would continue to earn when they retired. The unions were stupid to pick the fights with both of those governors; while the teachers’ unions’ media tried to muddy the issue by mentioning “unions” without “public sector” preceding it, it didn’t fool the private sector union members (many of whom supported Walker in the recall vote).