Quantum Windbag
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Some of these are indefensible.
Calling in sick and getting overtime?
Guess what people, teachers might not be the problem, but their union is.
Calling in sick and getting overtime?
Remember those teachers taking their students out of class to protest? Now I know why they like collective bargaining.Correctional Officer collective bargaining agreements allow officers a practice known as sick leave stacking. Officers can call in sick for a shift, receiving 8 hours of sick pay, and then are allowed to work the very next shift, earning time-and-a-half for overtime. This results in the officer receiving 2.5 times his or her rate of pay, while still only working 8 hours.
I love this one.Due to a 1982 provision of their collective bargaining agreement, Milwaukee Public School teachers actually receive two pensions upon retirement instead of one. The contribution to the second pension is equal to 4.2% of a teachers salary, with the school district making 100% of the contribution, just like they do for the first pension. This extra benefit costs taxpayers more than $16 million per year.
CARPE DIEM: Collective Bargaining Abuse Examples in WisconsinMilwaukee Public Schools teacher Megan Sampson was laid off less than one week after being named Outstanding First Year Teacher by the Wisconsin Council of English Teachers. She lost her job because the collective bargaining agreement requires layoffs to be made based on seniority rather than merit. Informed that her union had rejected a lower-cost health care plan, that still would have required zero contribution from teachers, Sampson said, Given the opportunity, of course I would switch to a different plan to save my job, or the jobs of 10 other teachers."
Guess what people, teachers might not be the problem, but their union is.
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