PWCS First Ever Union Contract
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| Great. Taxes will definitely go up. I have mixed feelings about this. I want teachers to be paid well, but I’m worried that teachers unions sometimes encouraging rent-seeking behavior without benefiting students or taxpayers. |
Anonymous
VA has some of the worst educator compensation in the entire country, so employees asking for better pay and working conditions is going to directly benefit the students in PWCS |
Anonymous
Chicago facts state otherwise: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-demands-51k-raise-for-average-teacher/ |
Anonymous
This is a blog post by a conservative anti-public education think tank. Criticizing pay raises doesn't account for a) how abhorently low Chicago educator salaries were to begin with, prior to recent CTU success; b) that teachers have masters degrees, so the comparison with the "average private sector worker" should be with private sector workers with graduate degrees. Intentionally sloppy and misleading. PLUS it says absolutely nothing about Virginia. Moreover, Chicago has probably the most powerful teachers union in the entire country, so it's hardly an instructive comparison with Virginia unions with a fundamentally different political landscape. |
Anonymous
A union's job is to advocate for its members. The board's job is to advocate for students and tax payers. Of course, the union will likely also be the largest donor in school board races |
Anonymous
The union will be able to negotiate with itself, and find that teachers both need more money, the money should be distributed by seniority, and they should be impossible to fire. |
Anonymous
Nonsense. PWCS bargained with the union. The school board approved the contract. Get over it. |
Anonymous
| Well, I think teachers should be paid more, but they also need to create more stringent rules to accompany higher compensation. Teachers should be required to have at least a 75th percentile SAT or ACT score. |
Anonymous
| now even more code reds days ... |
Anonymous
The point is that PWCS is going to be dominated by people friendly to the union, which really, really cares about who is going to be on the board. Other people, not so much. |
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Board member Erica Tredinnick (Brentsville) said she was not “not a fan of collective bargaining,” but endorsed increasing educator pay.
“I firmly believe that[b] this raise could have and would have been accomplished without this agreement,” Tredinnick said.[/b] Haha. Ok, sure. We’ll take her word for that. S/ |
Anonymous
| Public employees don't need a union, they are already protected, it's just a cash grab |