Fri, Sep 2, 2011 (11:11 a.m.)
The school year has begun and Clark County teachers are on the job but without a union contract -- part of their union's efforts to protest budget cuts and tougher teacher performance rules. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hosted his annual clean energy confab in Las Vegas this week. Can the lofty proclamations about renewable energy become reality? And voting is under way in the 2nd Congressional District special election where the Democratic candidate sounds more like a Republican. Michael Squires hosts.
We have a contract - the same one we had before. Until we make a new one, we still have one.
It would be really nice if the administrators in the district negotiated in good faith with the union - so they could avoid a financial crisis. I have a feeling they WANT to create a financial crisis so they can blame it on the union. What are teachers supposed to do? If the chief negotiator tells them accept our terms or nothing? That is not a negotiation - that is bullying.
If the school district goes bankrupt because it doesn't negotiate - the blame will lie solely on the administrators and school board members who allowed it to happen.
As for me, I wish I could get the EXACT SAME deal they school board and chief negotiator gave to the CASA - the CCSD administrators. It would only be fair for teachers and staff to get the same deal the leaders got - 1.8% pay cut and a day off. That would only be fair right?