Posted on 08/15/2011 11:07:59 AM PDT by UB355
WEAC issues layoff notices to 40% of staff By Erin Richards of the Journal Sentinel Aug. 15, 2011 12:02 p.m. |(114) Comments
Layoff notices have been issued to about 40% of the Wisconsin Education Association Council workforce, a total of 42 employees who work for the state's largest teachers union, Executive Director Dan Burkhalter confirmed Monday.
Burkhalter said that the layoffs and other budget cuts at WEAC are a result of Gov. Scott Walker's "union-busting" legislation.
“Right now we’re engaged in membership continuation campaigns," Burkhalter said in a statement. "We’ve made steady progress in signing up members and we anticipate further progress will be made as the school year resumes. Despite budget cuts and layoffs, our goal remains the same: to be a strong and viable organization that represents the voices of Wisconsin’s public school employees.”
The organization has been working to stay relevant in a time when state legislation has severely clipped the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public workers. The legislation makes it illegal for local teachers unions to electronically deduct dues from the payroll of teachers, and local unions also have to hold re-certification votes.
The Wisconsin Association of School Boards estimates that about 275 school districts in the state are working outside of collective bargaining agreements and subject to the new legislation. About 150 or so districts are operating under contracts that were extended with their respective unions before the legislation passed.
- Imagine that. They’re having trouble getting union members to voluntarily send in union dues.
When you sever the root, the weed dies ... but not without a fight.
In the long run, the garden prospers.
Just my 2 cents.
and the lack of funds could not have anything to do with the millions of dollars the teachers union pumped into the recent elections, could it?????
If all the union’s members across Wisconsin would just donate five dollars a week, all these folks could keep their jobs.
But then libs never want to part with their OWN money.
Solidarity! /s
Exactly the union bet on the Supreme Court election recount and the recall elections and lost again !!!
Funny thing is they were dead set agains the State laying off anyone because they were broke, so what do they do when they get broke??????? They lay off people.
When the shoe is on the other foot it doesn’t fit so well.
“Had the unions not blown all that money on recalls, those people would not have to be laid off.”
That is probably much closer to the truth than the reason they are citing.
This is the week they stop auto-deduction from paychecks for union dues.
” Perfect jobs to ‘ship overseas’ “
LOLOL!!
How true!
That $35 million the unions blew on their failed recall efforts would have paid a lot of union salaries. Oh, well....
Only 40%? Oh well... It’s a start.
Do the fast food joints really have 6 month training periods? Things sure have changed since I was a high school burger flipper! (McDonald’s, $0.15 hamburgers).
Likin’ them there Wisconsinites more and more every day...
” Dumbasses spent $30 million on those recall elections.
Maybe they could have kept some teachers employed with that money.
These people are parasites. “
Uh....more like gangster scum.
And the schools won’t even miss a beat.
I bet they are glad they spent all that money on the recall elections.
Naturally, the reporter blames Walker and ignores all the money the unions wasted on recall elections.
I thought the state was supposed to be heavily Leftist, Democrat. I’ve been taken aback by the events up there.
Excellent.
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