Philly schools cancel Teachers' union contracts

So, since they know any negotiation will result in a change, the teacher's union has no incentive to ever agree on anything?

 

Their pay is typically frozen with no annual COLA increases.

I can see how hard you're trying to make this about big bad teachers, but not being under contract is a pretty typical state of existence. In fact I would say almost never does a strike begin the moment a contract runs out.

 

I feel like everybody has got to give a little bit these days. I don't see any reason why teachers, or cops or firemen or really anyone should be exempt from this.

It's more big bad union than big bad teachers, but it's hard to feel too bad for someone who is only being asked to pay a small portion of their health care.

 

The law is pretty clear about the state's right to take over Philadelphia schools and overrule the district's Board of Directors. It's unclear if that same authority extends to the "Federation of Teachers," but it already has been shown to limit the union's bargaining power on certain issues, and also prohibits teacher strikes.

 

That's a matter for negotiating.

The idea that "everybody has got to give a little bit these days" is laughable as the same people who push hard for these public-employee concessions are by and large the same people who fight to cut corporate and high-earner individual taxes. There is no "giving a little bit" up in those ranks.

 

So, you're saying people would be pissed if they were lied to about their health plans?

 

LOL.

Actually, there were! I was at an install in the suburbs at 7:30AM and did four more jobs after that. And, the tech that works for me did three jobs.

 

This would seem to suggest you have a clue as to what has transpired in the stalled negotiations, what each side has offered and requested and what would constitute a reasonable compromise.

 

Sounds fine. Let's see the CEOs voluntarily give up their bonuses. Deal?

 

Stop trying to be rational!!!

 

Which is another issue: government employees should have NEVER been given the right to unionize.

 

Why? Are government workers not workers?