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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was handled poorly and employees can’t do anything about it. We got an apology. That’s it. [/quote]

Or, APS handled it as any employer would and employees are just mad.
Or, something in the middle. Maybe APS made some sort of deliberate or unintended mistake to exclude Kaiser, maybe they didn't. But the teacher's representative group AEA should have been aware contract was expiring and there's always a chance of changes. 
I will agree that holding all the sessions about the insurance/whatever it is the teachers need to do during the school day is ludicrous, thoughtless, and serves Syphax employees' schedules rather than teachers. [/quote]

Yeah.  There is a group of people (both employees and parents) who assign malicious intent to almost anything APS does.  It doesn't matter if it's an HR issue or a policy to cut down on disruptive behavior in schools.  If you visit another APS-focused page, you will always see someone mad about something and others jumping on making everything a huge a deal. The difference between APS and other employers is that there isn't necessarily a FB page to give people a platform to air their grievances.[/quote]

My sister is a MS teacher in another part of the country. She was visiting this weekend when news was breaking about the health care change. She read some of the stuff on AEM and was appalled at all of the teachers' complaints, ranging from calendar complaints to the health care issue and beyond. She also mentioned that she would get in trouble if she posted negative things about her employer on a semi-public FB page. And she is in a union that has teeth and in a liberal part of the country. [/quote]

People have to deal with insurance changes all the time and have to switch providers and don't get any notice--but their boards and CEOs don't have a public meeting every two weeks where they have to sit there quietly while you stand there and yell at them for three minutes, with zero fear of reprisal because your job is protected.

At my last job--where they literally took away our comprehensive insurance one year and replaced it with a high-deductible plan, and also took away our short term disability option while I was pregnant--I had an "anti-disparagement" clause in my employment contract. I could have been fired for cause (no severance, no unemployment) for saying the kinds of things that get posted every day on AEM.[/quote]

“Zero fear of reprisal” is not true. Yes, one’s job is generally protected at a bare minimum, but I’ve seen all kinds of “punishment” enacted by principals. Some examples: room changes, repeated and drastic grade level changes, schedule changes that result in more work and less planning time, increased “duty” requirements, formal improvement plans, increased paperwork, the list goes on.

It’s fine to disagree on the health ins. issue. But let’s be truthful and accurate.[/quote]

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