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volstork

(5,401 posts)
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 06:33 PM Apr 2018

This needs to happen all over the country:

From The Rude Pundit: http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2018/04/end-this-enraging-week-with-hope.html


"Yeah, this time teachers left the classroom for a day of action, with schools closing all over the state. And they are putting the legislature on notice that this is some shit they will not eat and they are coming for the seats. This year, all 100 House seats are up for grabs, as are half the Senate seats. "Forty-three current or retired educators are running as Democrats for the legislature," said a party spokesperson. And several Republican teachers are primarying the GOP legislators in their districts.

The message is clear: You have fucked with the wrong people.

Oh, and the pension "reform" also affects cops and firefighters.

So the Democratic Attorney General, Andy Beshear, has filed a lawsuit challenging the bill. He is joined by unions representing teachers and the police, saying that the changes to the retirement program comprise a kind of breach of contract. We shall see if this eminently logical argument makes a difference.

But next time some reporter from the New York Times or CNN heads to Trump country, women there can say, "This is what the white working class is doing now. Trying to change this bullshit." "

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This needs to happen all over the country: (Original Post) volstork Apr 2018 OP
It took long enough and they were forced to the wall. BigmanPigman Apr 2018 #1

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
1. It took long enough and they were forced to the wall.
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 06:45 PM
Apr 2018

As long as there has been female majority professions such as teaching, there has been a huge pay gap that has been accepted by the country. This has gone on for a hundred years and if you went into teaching you were going in knowing that you would not be paid a living wage.

Finally it has become so unbearable that even compassionate women with student loans, 50+ hour work weeks, little respect by society for their profession and hard work have said ENOUGH! Teachers can't pay bills with compassion. It is time for American society to wake up. This is NOT NEW! This has been a worsening problem that is finally getting attention. Why did it take so long?!?

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