Teachers Under Fire: At Least Nine States Propose Stripping Teachers Of Collective Bargaining Rights

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/02/16/teachers-bargain-states/

By Pat Garofalo at 12:55 pm

Lawmakers in several states have launched a broadside against public employees, aiming to cut their pay, slash their benefits, and strip them of their collective bargaining rights. Pivoting off the myth that public employees are getting paid more than their private sector counterparts, governors and state legislatures are scapegoating public workers for their states’ respective budget woes.

One of the biggest targets for these conservatives have been teachers. In fact, lawmakers in at least seven states have proposed stripping teachers of some of their collective bargaining rights:

FULL story and list at link.

We've gone off the cliff and are officially in free-fall.

How could so many 'Murkins be so dumb?

Get rid of the Union and the salaries are pushed
lower and lower. Republicans will do what ever they
can to get rid of Unions.

Right to Work States is the goal. Lower wages lower standards
of living.

Back then a lot of people just wanted to brag about their magic Toyotas and Hondas.

Don

A sorry state we're in when nominal Democrats cheer the death of unions.

And some of that, Belshi on CNN, misreported the Madison number as only "hundreds".

and pension. At one time Texas was safe, but not anymore. Looks like Perfect Hair wants to do away with medicaid and public schools. Fuck Rick Perry...suck an egg you loser!

unions or even tenure. It is the paltry scale which demands they be represented by a union. Senators and House members don't need a union because they provide for themselves just fine. But I'd like to see them live on a teacher's salary or work the long hours every teacher I know puts in. Hey, Senators and Reps, teachers get two or three paid vacation days a year, Christmas and New Years. How many do you get? President Obama, you can answer that question too. And don't all of you get a big check for life even if you're only there two years? Would you be willing to start at the starting salary of a teacher? Are you dedicated enough to even run for that measly pay?
How many of you have five years minimum of college behind you?
Get off the teachers. We're lucky most are willing to educate our children for the sheer love of it!