I guess all we can do now is wait, because it now appears that a strike is imminent. Evidently, the marathon negotiation session that Bongo had hoped would lead to some resolution on Sunday was cut short after only about three hours.
No new meeting dates were set. There aren’t expected to be any.
You can read the Northwest Herald update here, and you can read the Daily Herald update here.
As a refresher for what the union members soundly rejected last Tuesday, here is a link to the highlight summary of the board's last, best and final offer.
So school will start as planned and parents and administrators will wait for the HEA leadership to pull the trigger on the strike.
Bongo would encourage anyone who is in a position to help a neighbor who will need childcare to step up and help make the impending strike as painless as possible. If you live in Sun City and can provide some childcare for working families, please offer to help.
By pulling the trigger on the strike, Bongo believes the HEA will be destroying all of the good steps the District has taken over the last few years to bring the community back together.
It’s too bad that the teachers union can’t see how its actions will rip this community apart. It’s too bad the teachers union can’t seem to see more than one foot in front of its face and realize that the money wanted is earmarked for purposes that will help its members down the road. It’s too bad that in the end, money really was the most important thing to them.
As much as Bongo respects many of the teachers in the district, Bongo thinks its time for the administration to provide an ultimatum to the teachers and let them know that if they do not cross the eventual picket line, they will be replaced.
Bongo was talking to his friend, the Legal Beagle, who explained the intricacies of a strike. Bongo wonders if the teachers know that if a strike occurs they don’t get paid and they have to go on Cobra and pay 100% own their own insurance? Bongo also wonders if they know the district is not required to make up the days when the strike eventually ends (within reason), which means they will lose that income forever?
Oh well, the union put blind faith in leaders who didn’t deserve it, so they have made their bed and now must sleep in it.
2 comments:
It is interesting that for all your knowledge you seem to fail to have even the most basic understanding of this and really enjoy showing it off.
First, the teachers voted, as reported by the Northwest Herald, overwhelmingly to support the strike. So it isnt that the HEA has mislead the teachers on any of this. The teachers as a whole, all 700 of them, decided to tell the district that since EVERY test score imaginable has gone up in recent years, they deserve a raise.
Second, as with any union, members qualify for assistance up to their regular pay from the union while on strike.
So, if you and the rest of Sun City would like to see teachers back in the classroom, I suggest that you either volunteer to teach a class (since you think its so easy) or call the BOE and ask them to agree to a deal to end this.
Oh, and actually doing your own homework would be a great idea.
Gosh, Dan. Seems like Bongo struck a nerve with you. Bongo does not wish to lump all of the teachers into the same group as the HEA negotiators. Bongo believes the teachers are being misled by their leaders, and while Bongo is disappointed that the teachers are not taking the time to get all of the facts rather than solely relying on the scraps being fed to them by their leadership team, Bongo still believes that 99% of the teachers in District 158 are good people.
Your tone suggests you must be part of that other 1%.
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