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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My understanding is that the benefit of WTU is that members are eligible for bonuses. DCPS should institute a blanket bonus policy outside of the union contract so that teachers have no incentive to join. [/quote]

Do you want to know what happens when teachers aren’t unionized?

I worked for a prominent DC charter, a charter DCUM parents seem to love. I barely got a lunch break, was contracted to work until 5pm each day, had to provide my cell number to parents and be available to them until 7pm, AND got paid nearly 15k less a year than I do in DCPS. This charter (and many others in the city) take advantage of young teachers and work them to the bone. It is not sustainable, and while the teachers have smiles on for parents and students, it’s truly miserable.

I sought out DCPS because I wanted to finally be  unionized. I love having protection for the monolith that is DCPS. I’m guaranteed a lunch break, I have contracted hours that are reasonable, I have a fair contract. Salary aside my work/life balance has improved and allows teaching to be my “job” and not my “life”.

WTU makes missteps for sure. But I’d never not be apart of a Union.[/quote]

I honestly do not care. Prior to this, I was a big DCPS/union supporter because I believed that better working conditions for my child’s teachers was better for his education, better for DC, and better morally. Now after this utter debacle, I see (and have been told repeatedly here) that unions exclusively look after the interests of the teachers and they are willing to go to great lengths— including unconscionably scaring vulnerable DC families about school safety— to get any advantage for teachers. So I am not a union supporter, and am perfectly fine with ununionized charters and privates and parochials. If Bowser manages to overcome WTU that will be a big win in my book and definitely persuade me to support her re-election. And I also filter all my council votes through the lens of how they have responded. [/quote]

Um, OK.  No one cares if you care or not, but thanks for sharing, I guess...[/quote]

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