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“Money is tight” according to the article. 🤔
I want my union to support ME, meaning my salary & my benefits. While working conditions can come into play, IMO not to the extent that the article mentions, things like public housing & busing for immigrants are not something unions should be negotiating.
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When $ is tight, that’s the real problem, as we in Michigan understand.
You know that 3% they are taking out? Where it is going is now overfunded, the analogy is it’s like making a car payment after the car is paid off, see below. 🤦🏻♀️
After literally 20 I am still making less money than I made then, the amount deposited into my bank is less than it was 20 years ago, & this is one of the numerous Michigan reasons. This is why I don’t care about those other reasons. What other profession makes less $$ 20 years later? To be truly clear, I am comparing two numbers that do not take inflation into consideration at all. 😳😝
I don’t know how to feel about that. It’s just so far out of my immediate concerns and what I see as a teacher. Cannot knock the green initiative, but we have so many other problems right now, seems like something that shouldn’t even be a fight. What do others think? Maybe I’m falling behind here in my thinking.
I think there are a lot more important things to be fighting about. I wonder how many of those teachers are concerned about the true lack of recycling that happens. I found out from a custodian that many of the schools who are "recycling" are still dumping the recycled materials in with the other trash and not recycling at all
It’s a great idea and in big cities a district does have a huge footprint, but it’s a step too far to demand housing initiatives and things that are the purveyance of the city. On the other hand, some housing and decent food for immigrants or kids who might be temporarily homeless would help make teachers’ jobs easier.
For example, I could go with an initiative to hire a person or two to coordinate some of the easier things first: adding more green spaces, for example. Task that person with determining where green spaces can be added in a section of the district, getting grants and/or donations, and coordinating having kids help design/plant/care for trees and plants as part of their learning. Parents and community members can help, but make it kids first so they learn.
If CTU just demands those whoppingly expensive changes all at once, it will fail. Come up with something reasonable to better schools and teachers’ jobs so you don’t set yourself up for failure and resistance right away.