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Will the WTU illegally strike? Not return on 2/1
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Anonymous
| The WTU website makes us think they will strike illegally. Thoughts from y’all? |
Anonymous
Where do you see this? |
Anonymous
| No. School will start on February 1st. Of teachers do not show up they do not get paid. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
| I see nothing that says they are planning to strike. |
Anonymous
| Yes, the union is preparing to strike. |
Anonymous
Source?? |
Anonymous
| This plan doesn’t meet demand, but it does a lot better job than the previous, crazy, one-size-fits-all-schools plans. If the WTU blocks this plan, the are really asking for trouble. There is no good reason to claim things aren’t workable now. |
Anonymous
Check their Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/wtuteacher/status/1352639353818918912?s=21&fbclid=IwAR0QCt8uAn9elrHbPxJpLEMhxEAumXp-PD4-Jr7hXQXD_jcmyzZyJu3m8EU |
Anonymous
It says they want to return when the workforce is fully immune. It does not say they want to strike. The union makes lots of pronouncements. You probably never noticed or cared before. |
Anonymous
| Remember when they pronounced CARE rooms needed to close? Same thing going on here....with the same end result. |
Anonymous
| I won’t be surprised if they strike. But I will be upset if the teachers take vaccine doses first, considering day care workers have been bumped to prioritize opening public schools. |
Anonymous
Agree with the first part, not the second. |
Anonymous
| I can only speak for myself, but I will be at work in person Feb 1. The students who are coming back need to be back. I will have had one dose of the vaccine. Am I scared? Maybe a little, yes, but the particular students who are coming back NEED to come back. |
Anonymous
Here are the facts, decide for yourself what you think will happen. 1. PERB rules in favor of the WTU, end of October, from the original complaint for violation of the contract, filed in July. DCPS forced to negotiate with WTU (this was a major F-up of DCPS BTW, they had July-Oct to work with union.) 2. DCPS has to abandon early November opening because of PERB ruling, WTU strikes/sick-outs and bizarrely considers it a win. 3. Nov - Now; DCPS kicks all the planning to each school, abandons the staffing survey (cause they had to) which gave teachers a lot of flexibility; WTU plans to sign MOA and then backtracks multiples times until it's filed; asks Elissa Silverman to sponsor a bill (which she does) that is ultimately withdrawn; WTU heavily lobbies city council (now the whole cause the Ed committee has been disbanded); WTU consistently messages its members unsafe, unsafe, unsafe, unsafe so much that who would expect anything other than certain death if returning to school. 4. 1/19 WTU files emergency complaint with PERB to calling for immediate arbitration for what sounds like violations of MOA; arbitration will probably happen next week. If arbitration rules in favor of DCPS and there is no legal injunction forcing DCPS to change course, what do you think will happen? If you don't believe the back-up plan is a strike, I can't help you. |