Welcome to the real world. I work for a school district, too... and I work more without a pay raise or break all the time. I'm not a union employee. I don't bitch about it because I'm glad to have a job These teachers should be glad to be employed.
The teachers are forced to spend more time "teaching' at school and they have taken "free" periods from them. As much as many think teaching is easy and teachers day ends at 3:05 they are mistaken.
Usually i bitch when teachers go on strike. This case its understandable. the state demanded teachers work more without a pay raise or breaks.
fuck that.
Rahm is a idiot. To force something (that is btw debatable if it is even going to help the kids) on the teachers and not deal with the union is fucking idiotic. just plain fucking idiotic.
Parents are retarded, more breaking news at....
When did the culture of ignorance take over? There was a time when doing bad in school meant getting your ass beat by your parents. Now the parents insist that the test should be changed so there is no wrong answer.
I'd guess the culture of ignorance took over about when kids went from having "parents" to having a "parent". The decline of the two-parent household is going to doom generations to a cycle of poverty.
Usually i bitch when teachers go on strike. This case its understandable. the state demanded teachers work more without a pay raise or breaks.
fuck that.
How come no one is talking about the Rahm want to force teacher to terach additional hours and days for the same pay?
my boss forces me to work additional hours for the same pay. so fuck the unions. bunch of over paid entitlement minded babies. get to work you fucking pieces of shit or find a different job!
Assuming this is not just a negotiating tactic this type of thing is what gives unions a bad name
Usually i bitch when teachers go on strike. This case its understandable. the state demanded teachers work more without a pay raise or breaks.
and this is a big fucking problems. kids spend so much time getting ready for this test that should be spent learning the information. instead they spend time learning how to take the damn test.
I love how the nbc headline state Rahm tell the union to "Finish it for our children." Translation: Rahm doesn;t have a resolution and use children as a leverage to get what he want and made the teacher look bad while at it. Personally, kids are already spending too much time in classroom without any kind of break beside lunch time. Adding more classroom time won;lt help a bit if the kids brain is in a shutdown mode.
they already rejected a 16% increase over 4 years, and a slew of other benefits.
CPS offered the teachers 16% salary increases over four years, plus incentives for better performance. The teachers weren't asked to take on the extra hours without compensation.
Not long after he took office Emanuel reneged on a teachers pay increase that had been negotiated. He then sought to extend the school day in return for a 2% pay increase, which was rejected by the union.
(snip)
Then, an independent arbitrator ruled that teachers should receive raises of between 15% and 20% in the first year for a longer working day, and criticised the school board for trying to extend the longer day during such tough times.
The Chicago Teachers Union had gone into negotiations asking for a wage increase of nearly 30 percent over two years. Sources said the union realizes that the price of a major pay hike in terms of lost jobs and working conditions would be too high.
Union officials now face the task of explaining to members why it would reject a salary increase that is less than they asked for but significantly higher than the 2 percent first-year raise CPS initially offered.
(snip)
On Sunday, union Vice President Jesse Sharkey, who declined to comment on the arbitrator's report, said the union must consider many issues beyond wages.
$76k average salary plus sh*t ton of benefits and 16% raise over 4 years.
They should be fired. It's not like the kids will notice anyway. Barely half of kids who enter high school in Chicago even graduate.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/316395/chicago-bled-dry-striking-teachers-unions-john-fund#
Funny to watch them squeeze Chicago even more, though. Eventually the money will run out and those who are laid off can think back to the good ole' days of working 10 months/year for $76k plus s*t ton of benefits.
For all those bitching about teachers making too much, having it too easy, stop complaining and go get a job as a teach you idiots.
I hope you see the point I am making...
Getting ready for a test is called studying. Studying is called learning.
$76k average salary plus sh*t ton of benefits and 16% raise over 4 years.
Fvck yes they would.a 4% merit raise per year?? lol damn way to fuck over your tax payers. im willing to bet the tax payers that these leaches get paid by would love a 4% merit raise.
This will end soon, there's no way Obama is going to let this get dragged out for a long time. He'll tell Rahm to pay off the thugs.
The average teacher in Chicago makes around $76,000 + benefits and they want a 30% pay increase over two years. Fuck them.