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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looks like our so called union is a big fail for teachers. Our Superintendent owns the union and she tells them what to do.[/quote]

It's telling that union leadership won't call out the School Board or Superintendent in any of this.  They shift the blame solely to the Board of Supervisors and state.  There is plenty of blame to go around right now, but leaders within FCPS could have made hard decisions to preserve teaching positions. Union leaders seem to believe that backing off the raise an additional percent would have been perceived as weakness, so the position losses are either acceptable collateral damage in exchange for getting closer to the raises negotiated in the CBA or just the fault of the state of BoS. Someone did the math and discovered that reducing the raise just by just one more percent would have saved these positions. Depending on how long you've been in the county, that is probably around $1000/year.  So far, it seems that it may only be destaffs, but I worry that actual RIFs may be on the horizon, if not this year, then next.

I will be considering liability insurance instead of union membership for next year since it seems that the union is not willing to fight for teacher's jobs and services for students.  All of these lost positions will impact students in some way. If the union won't publicly stand up to the SB and Reid, I'm not sure if I can support them. [/quote]

The union is the Democratic Party of VA wearing a scooby doo mask.

So is the school board.

Once you understand that, everything makes sense.

These aren’t actually separate entities negotiating with each other. They are two branches of the same entity putting on a puppet show for the slow witted.
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