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Unionized Rhode Island Teachers Refuse To Work 25 Minutes More Per Day, So Town Fires All Of Them
Good fucking riddance, I say. Give that money to teachers who care.
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Unionized Rhode Island Teachers Refuse To Work 25 Minutes More Per Day, So Town Fires All Of Them
Good fucking riddance, I say. Give that money to teachers who care.
And I found this first article Marriage in America: The frayed knot interesting. Actually, a lot of stuff on that page I found interesting 8D
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Date: 2010-02-17 05:22 pm (UTC)That's unusual though, that they would just fire all of them. It kinda surprised me. I'm used to teachers back home being catered to by the towns, so it was kind of a shock. There was one year when I was in middle school that the high school teachers went on strike and it delayed the opening of the school like two weeks. XD;; This isn't necessarily a bad thing though, for Central Falls.
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Date: 2010-02-17 05:50 pm (UTC)The reason they were ALL fired was because they're all Union. Even if some of the teachers were fine with it, they wouldn't be allowed to break ranks [become a scab] and say they'd stay. The school has to negotiate with the union rep, not individual teachers. While they might have been able to negotiate different terms with different teachers, the union discourages individuals from negotiating contracts and other business matters themselves. That's what you're paying for when you join.
It also says she has the ability to hire back no more than 50% of the previous staff. So the ones who WANT to work, don't mind the extra hours, or at least want to keep their jobs, can be hired back, but only half of them. Seriously though, they are getting paid GOOD for teachers, and I'm happy they do get paid well, but I'm NOT happy at the reason why they're getting paid so well.
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Date: 2010-02-17 06:04 pm (UTC)Well, there is that. I don't think the article goes into it, but almost all of the public schools in that part of the state score pretty badly too - Central Falls, Pawtucket, Providence, etc are always at the very bottom, for public schools anyway, and they're all right next to each other. They're the city schools for Rhode Island. Though, I'm fairly certain there was some bias involved with the people who explained that part of it to me, since the suburban schools and the rural schools score really well most of the time. My school was kind of upper-middle range (14/52 I think? Not the top ten, but not horrible either) and they would always be like "well at least we're not the city schools".
Oh, I understand they're union. :O I just can't remember anyone in RI firing all the teachers before now, instead of just giving into the union's demands, or renegotiating.
Yeah, I hear you on how much they're getting paid though. They really shouldn't be complaining...I'm glad that some can be hired back though, because I'm sure not all of them agree with the union on this one, even if only half can be hired back.
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Date: 2010-02-17 09:28 pm (UTC)City schools always seem to suffer that kind of fate, and I'm wondering about all the factors that makes that true more often than not. I was a happy little suburbanite with a decent school, so *shrugs*
Hnnn, I don't know if she had a choice but to fire them all. The way they were talking it was either make those changes or get new staff who'll do what's necessary.
Yeah. But I also read in the comments that they weren't getting NO additional pay. But 30 dollars an hour for some of the things that were being required.