Teacher Strikes Here?
Imagine that teachers in your community have just been offered a 5.55% pay reduction as well as an obligation to pick up either 10% or 20% of your health premium. This and more is what the Detroit Federation of Teachers has been offered as a contract settlement. As a result they are going on an illegal strike. Strikes by public employees are illegal in Michigan, as they are in Wisconsin.
Just for the sake of argument, what will it take to mobilize our teachers and support staff to the point where a strike would be successful? Apparently the QEO and revenue caps over 10+ years has not been motivation enough. The QEO and Caps also shoot the "as the market will bear" argument as they are artificially and arbitrarily imposed. So, assuming that most people work at a job in order to make money, what would it take to anger the Wisconsin education masses into action?
Read more about the Detroit strike here. You can access the
Detroit Federation Of Teachers Website here.
Just for the sake of argument, what will it take to mobilize our teachers and support staff to the point where a strike would be successful? Apparently the QEO and revenue caps over 10+ years has not been motivation enough. The QEO and Caps also shoot the "as the market will bear" argument as they are artificially and arbitrarily imposed. So, assuming that most people work at a job in order to make money, what would it take to anger the Wisconsin education masses into action?
Read more about the Detroit strike here. You can access the
Detroit Federation Of Teachers Website here.
posted by Grumbleberries at 1:32 PM
2 Comments:
I have too darn strong of a work ethic to seriously consider a strike.
I'm not above egging somebody's house, though.
There has to be a point between where we are now, and paying the school district in order to work, that teachers as a group say 'enough". I'm just curious where that point would be.
Oh well, off to work!
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