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Anonymous wrote:Serious question- if teachers want a union why not join dcps? Our union doesn’t make things all butterflies & unicorns but it gives us due process for firing, collective bargaining, and a pension. I wouldn’t trade that for anything.

All of those things sound good but having a pension seems unreasonable. Very few employers offer a pension most of us are lucky to have a matching 401k or the Non-Profit equivalent.

More should offer pensions. The move to 401k’s has been a dismal failure for workers.

Anonymous wrote:Serious question- if teachers want a union why not join dcps? Our union doesn’t make things all butterflies & unicorns but it gives us due process for firing, collective bargaining, and a pension. I wouldn’t trade that for anything.

All of those things sound good but having a pension seems unreasonable. Very few employers offer a pension most of us are lucky to have a matching 401k or the Non-Profit equivalent.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been great for DCPS and Chavez. I'm sure it will be great for MV too.

This would be the end of MV as we know it.

Why? Because the teachers would be able to negotiate better working conditions?

What a joke. DCPS - we all pay the union and the working conditions suck.

This makes me laugh. I worked at a suburban school that had no union. We had no seat at the table and were required to do so much more than I do here in dc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Serious question- if teachers want a union why not join dcps? Our union doesn’t make things all butterflies & unicorns but it gives us due process for firing, collective bargaining, and a pension. I wouldn’t trade that for anything.

Not even for wider respect for the profession and much higher compensation for the teachers who actually teach?

Are you saying that I’d be paid more without a union? No way. I make over $100,000 annually plus a bonus.
And I don’t respect folks that don’t respect unions. They are not perfect- but management is almost always worse.

Anyone hear if the school decided to voluntarily recognize the union? I thought the school was going to decide today.

Anonymous wrote:Serious question- if teachers want a union why not join dcps? Our union doesn’t make things all butterflies & unicorns but it gives us due process for firing, collective bargaining, and a pension. I wouldn’t trade that for anything.

Not even for wider respect for the profession and much higher compensation for the teachers who actually teach?

Serious question- if teachers want a union why not join dcps? Our union doesn’t make things all butterflies & unicorns but it gives us due process for firing, collective bargaining, and a pension. I wouldn’t trade that for anything.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been great for DCPS and Chavez. I'm sure it will be great for MV too.

This would be the end of MV as we know it.

Why? Because the teachers would be able to negotiate better working conditions?

What a joke. DCPS - we all pay the union and the working conditions suck.

MV: Dems talking big game and doing something else.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been great for DCPS and Chavez. I'm sure it will be great for MV too.

This would be the end of MV as we know it.

Why? Because the teachers would be able to negotiate better working conditions?

Anonymous wrote:It's been great for DCPS and Chavez. I'm sure it will be great for MV too.

This would be the end of MV as we know it.

To 16:17
Surely you jest.

Anonymous wrote:It's been great for DCPS and Chavez. I'm sure it will be great for MV too.

The Chavez campus that unionized is closing at the end of this year. Not necessarily related to the teachers forming a union.

That said I think it is a great idea and I hope it happens at MV and elsewhere. Aside from working conditions and compensation, a union gives teachers a seat at the table for some school decisions, such as calendar and class sizes.

It's been great for DCPS and Chavez. I'm sure it will be great for MV too.

Anyone know what this effort is looking like for teachers?