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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The communication is pretty one sided. There hasn’t been any concerns published regarding the risks of unionizing. MV will have even less funds to pay teachers once they unionize since they will have to pay for lawyers. I’m afraid MV will go down the same path as Chavez and everyone will lose out.[/quote]
Ehhh- this to be us like the small business owners who say they can’t afford  pay minimum wage. Well, then you don’t have a successful model. If a teachers union (& im not sure why this equals lawyers) will financially crush MV- then... it was a failed model. Workers get to vote to unionize. [/quote]

I support the union (signed the petition, etc) but I do think there is financial risk for the school. The school's finances already seem shaky (one reason for the expansion according to what I was told by school leadership was so the school could get money from a one-time expansion grant that they said they used for the current campus). That said, teachers have a legal right to a union and so I will support them. But that doesn't mean I am 100% convinced it will be good for MV's finances. But then again, not everything can be measured on a spreadsheet and if teachers are happier that might be a worthwhile trade-off. But there will be trade-offs, there always are in life.[/quote]

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