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NZ Primary, Secondary, and Primary Principals to go on strike on May 29th.
it is the first mass strike of this sort and national in scale. Primary and Secondary teachers are represented by different unions, and both unions have had 4 failed negotiations up to this point. The members all voted in secrecy over last week to strike and a joint strike was agreed upon.
Teachers are asking for smaller class sizes, more teachers (we have a mega shortage), more money, and more specialist teachers for kids with extra needs.
If you want to look up the effects organized labor can have within a national framework, I would suggest reading up on the 1988 Polish dockworkers' strike in Gdansk. It arguably was a major factor on world politics and could be argued that it was a major factor in the collapse of the communist bloc. It was a major world event that barely got covered in the Western histories. There were absolutely external factors that led to the collapse, but organized actual labor against the state was a huge factor.
NZ Primary, Secondary, and Primary Principals to go on strike on May 29th.
it is the first mass strike of this sort and national in scale. Primary and Secondary teachers are represented by different unions, and both unions have had 4 failed negotiations up to this point. The members all voted in secrecy over last week to strike and a joint strike was agreed upon.
Teachers are asking for smaller class sizes, more teachers (we have a mega shortage), more money, and more specialist teachers for kids with extra needs.
Here's a good short comic on the matter. It's basically the same thing we see in the US - the job has gotten more complex, yet there's been a refusal to pay teachers accordingly - and unsurprisingly, that's resulted in fewer teachers in the pipeline.
Looks like the provost's office paid attention. There was already a task force looking to make recommendations, and they sent out an email today saying that although formal recommendations aren't due until December 2019, they're making preliminary recommendations as well as a $10 million investment in TA and AI stipends and tuition costs that will go into effect this upcoming academic year.
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NZ Primary, Secondary, and Primary Principals to go on strike on May 29th.
it is the first mass strike of this sort and national in scale. Primary and Secondary teachers are represented by different unions, and both unions have had 4 failed negotiations up to this point. The members all voted in secrecy over last week to strike and a joint strike was agreed upon.
Teachers are asking for smaller class sizes, more teachers (we have a mega shortage), more money, and more specialist teachers for kids with extra needs.
There's an article in the Herald today about immigrant teachers being refused residency because they earn below the minimum to qualify.
Went to my first union rally for our ongoing contract negotiations today. No big news to report, but it sure feels good to be represented with a group of your coworkers. unions
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Apparently McDonald's workers went on strike and we all missed it/it wasn't widely reported. It's part of the Fight for $15 movement but with an added element of fighting sexual harassment. It was timed to be on the day of the annual shareholder meeting, and I guess it's not ongoing.
Just mentioning it here because it was a thing that happened.
A recent Delta flight leaving Atlanta ran into a maintenance problem, causing a lengthy delay before takeoff. As the airline tried to resolve the issue, someone feared the holdup might cause an even bigger headache: flight attendants walking off the plane because they had worked so long.
So, according to internal communications reviewed by HuffPost, an employee in Delta’s operations control center sent a directive to the Delta gate agent handling the flight.
“Do not open door,” the message read. “flt attendants out of time and none available.” The employee advised the gate agent to “let [maintenance] do their work without opening door thanks.”
Whoever sent the message seems to have been worried that the flight attendants would soon hit their maximum duty hours ― the most they can be required to work continuously without a break. And that, tired and annoyed, they would walk off the plane, forcing the airline to scramble to find another crew, or cancel the flight.
Didn't know that was set on an airline basis, for all the "not sky waitresses, important safety functions" stuff would think they'd be covered under FAA rules too. I got bit a few years back because the pilots timed out. The annoying part was the flight was at like 530, and didn't in till like 930, and they told us the timed out at like 10. Seems like something that someone could have calculated at 5, when there were still 10 other flights to ORD that night.
A recent Delta flight leaving Atlanta ran into a maintenance problem, causing a lengthy delay before takeoff. As the airline tried to resolve the issue, someone feared the holdup might cause an even bigger headache: flight attendants walking off the plane because they had worked so long.
So, according to internal communications reviewed by HuffPost, an employee in Delta’s operations control center sent a directive to the Delta gate agent handling the flight.
“Do not open door,” the message read. “flt attendants out of time and none available.” The employee advised the gate agent to “let [maintenance] do their work without opening door thanks.”
Whoever sent the message seems to have been worried that the flight attendants would soon hit their maximum duty hours ― the most they can be required to work continuously without a break. And that, tired and annoyed, they would walk off the plane, forcing the airline to scramble to find another crew, or cancel the flight.
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Public employee strikes are technically already unlawful under West Virginia state law, but previous court decisions haven't detailed "possible consequences for teachers" who go on strike, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported.
The GOP amendment, according to the Gazette-Mail, would "specify that public worker strikes are unlawful, that school workers can be fired if they strike, that school employees' pay can be withheld on strike days, and that county superintendents can't close schools in anticipation of a strike or to help a strike."
Republican state Sen. Charles Trump, the sponsor of the amendment, described the provision as "a codification of what is the current law of West Virginia."
Winnie Wong, senior political adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), called the measure "absolutely disgusting" in a tweet on Monday.
In addition to walkouts over pay and benefits last year that shut down every school in the state, West Virginia teachers also went on strike earlier this year to protest Republican privatization efforts.
"This is how the GOP retaliates against the people who educate our children," Wong wrote of the anti-strike provision.
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So if all the teachers go on strike anyway, they all get fired and the schools are closed anyway? And then the kids can't go to school and oooooooh I see..
So if all the teachers go on strike anyway, they all get fired and the schools are closed anyway? And then the kids can't go to school and oooooooh I see..
It's fucking pathetic that government has made a public school teacher's best career path appears to be.... finding a different job.
For Republicans, it's at the least, "ehh, fuck it", and at worse, working as intended. But Democrats don't cover themselves in glory with this shit. Instead of arguing that maybe they cut back on letting police by surplus military equipment, or not raising taxes to directly improve schools, they cower under the Republican attacks, instead of screaming back about how a lack of schooling fucks society for generations.
Well yeah, Republicans a) get to make money by privatizing everything, b) get to further reduce workers rights and the power of unions, c) get to cut taxes, d) get to fuck over poor people and minorities disproportionately, and e) get a new base of under- and uneducated voters. Fucking with public schools is everything a conservative could ever want. I'm honestly surprised they haven't done more to fuck over public schools than they already have.
President Barack Obama may end up doing more for the struggling labor movement than any president in three decades.
Using a thin partisan majority on the National Labor Relations Board, Obama’s Democratic appointees have issued a string of rulings that favor unions — including six pro-labor decisions in just the past few days
And you can find more. The Democrats during the Obama years spent plenty of time on this issue, it just doesn't make big headlines.
The problem has always been that, Trump himself, like Reagan and others before him, has managed to pull support from blue-collar union members despite GOP policy on organized labour because of cultural issues.
No. 2018-19 has seen Democratic candidates integrated and embrace unions in ways and to a degree that is new and very good. Multiple campaigns are unionizing, campaigns are coordinating volunteers with strikers, candidates are explicitly leaning on specific employers etc. It can bind unions to Democrats in a way they haven't been for a long time and will do more good than that time Obama posted something on his blog wrote an open letter.
You seem to be under the impression I said this marks the first time Democrats have talked positively about unions, which is weird.
I wish engineers didn’t hate good things, that union contract is amazing
Engineers are the... well, engineers of their own misery. It's what they get for thinking they're too smart or valuable to need the protections and benefits of a union contract, when in reality they're just as expendable as the rest of us.
I will never understand how people who like their job and don't want it to change were convinced that a union contract that guaranteed it never changes is bad.
I wish engineers didn’t hate good things, that union contract is amazing
Engineers are the... well, engineers of their own misery. It's what they get for thinking they're too smart or valuable to need the protections and benefits of a union contract, when in reality they're just as expendable as the rest of us.
Don’t gotta tell me lol, I live in this world every day
I will never understand how people who like their job and don't want it to change were convinced that a union contract that guaranteed it never changes is bad.
Because they are convinced that union would force them to help people less worthy than them, and take away part of their salary as union dues.
But on their own, they can negotiate just as well, no, even better, salary and benefits while all those leeches are left in the cold.
Dunning-Kruger is hell of a drug.
The issue is to a great extent that many people in the U.S. don't know what unions actually do, and only regularly hear about the mistakes and over reach events which unions are involved in.
So many engineers just think that unions will stop them getting raises and promotions. Decrease their salaries, and force them to pay into pension schemes which will then get robbed by corrupt union officials or be underfunded and go bankrupt.
Also a bunch of engineering work is currently set on a path thus that trying to slow it down by making the working conditions better would result in engineering firms getting 100% shut out. Like if my wife's firm unionized it wouldn't change the deadlines on their current contracts (which is what builds the fucked up engineering workloads), and if they tried to insist on union protections in future contracts they'd probably lose every contract bid because the way private contract bids are awarded is pretty corrupt. Like the whole objectivist rich assholes thing is totally correct. However there's also a whole bunch of logistical issues in there as well that makes unionizing engineering difficult. We'd have to do some pretty deep "change how literally everything works" type of shit to get engineers in unions.
I wish engineers didn’t hate good things, that union contract is amazing
I don't understand the connection, why are we talking about engineers in regards to a union contract for Vox Media and the Writers Guild of America?
Lots of us work in some flavor of engineering and wish we could get such union support. Unfortunately there's a bunch of shit that currently makes it impossible to do so.
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NZ Primary, Secondary, and Primary Principals to go on strike on May 29th.
it is the first mass strike of this sort and national in scale. Primary and Secondary teachers are represented by different unions, and both unions have had 4 failed negotiations up to this point. The members all voted in secrecy over last week to strike and a joint strike was agreed upon.
Teachers are asking for smaller class sizes, more teachers (we have a mega shortage), more money, and more specialist teachers for kids with extra needs.
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Yeah Solidarity did a shitload more to destroy the USSR than Reagan ever did
Also supporting them via network effects.
Here's a good short comic on the matter. It's basically the same thing we see in the US - the job has gotten more complex, yet there's been a refusal to pay teachers accordingly - and unsurprisingly, that's resulted in fewer teachers in the pipeline.
There's an article in the Herald today about immigrant teachers being refused residency because they earn below the minimum to qualify.
Definitely underscores a point.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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Just mentioning it here because it was a thing that happened.
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They should hijack the plane
They should do a Steven Slater, open the door, grab a beer, and slide on out.
Damn. That was 9 years ago.
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Vox writer.
Writers across Vox sites are staging a work stoppage until management negotiates a fair contract.
It's fucking pathetic that government has made a public school teacher's best career path appears to be.... finding a different job.
For Republicans, it's at the least, "ehh, fuck it", and at worse, working as intended. But Democrats don't cover themselves in glory with this shit. Instead of arguing that maybe they cut back on letting police by surplus military equipment, or not raising taxes to directly improve schools, they cower under the Republican attacks, instead of screaming back about how a lack of schooling fucks society for generations.
That's I believe the third campaign to do so (Sanders, Castro).
They've been at this for awhile now.
Just random story from the Obama years:
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/unions-barack-obama-labor-board-victories-213204 And you can find more. The Democrats during the Obama years spent plenty of time on this issue, it just doesn't make big headlines.
The problem has always been that, Trump himself, like Reagan and others before him, has managed to pull support from blue-collar union members despite GOP policy on organized labour because of cultural issues.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/09/04/president-obama-letter-americas-hardworking-men-and-women
This stuff is out there. Democrats have been making the argument for unions pretty openly since at least the Obama years.
No. 2018-19 has seen Democratic candidates integrated and embrace unions in ways and to a degree that is new and very good. Multiple campaigns are unionizing, campaigns are coordinating volunteers with strikers, candidates are explicitly leaning on specific employers etc. It can bind unions to Democrats in a way they haven't been for a long time and will do more good than that time Obama posted something on his blog wrote an open letter.
You seem to be under the impression I said this marks the first time Democrats have talked positively about unions, which is weird.
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Engineers are the... well, engineers of their own misery. It's what they get for thinking they're too smart or valuable to need the protections and benefits of a union contract, when in reality they're just as expendable as the rest of us.
Don’t gotta tell me lol, I live in this world every day
But on their own, they can negotiate just as well, no, even better, salary and benefits while all those leeches are left in the cold.
Dunning-Kruger is hell of a drug.
So many engineers just think that unions will stop them getting raises and promotions. Decrease their salaries, and force them to pay into pension schemes which will then get robbed by corrupt union officials or be underfunded and go bankrupt.
I don't understand the connection, why are we talking about engineers in regards to a union contract for Vox Media and the Writers Guild of America?
Lots of us work in some flavor of engineering and wish we could get such union support. Unfortunately there's a bunch of shit that currently makes it impossible to do so.