Seeing a new change as the hours pass too.. They are interviewing teachers who are now saying “OK I am willing to take the pay cut but where will it end?”
I smell fear...
too many unemployed people to not take a pay cut the private sector has done it for two years in many industries. Take it or hit the road.
These so called “doctors” show how large the lawlessness and lack of ethics is in our country. They should be dealt with swiftly and harshly.
The Bamster will only fund them as long as they're useful. After that, it's under the bus. They're trying to save some face, now.
Truly, though, this is big for them. Restricting their negotiations to salary kills most of their ability to negotiate for salary, also. In collective bargaining, once any agreement is made in any area of employment, such as the hiring process, neither side can change any area of that area without agreement from the other side. One of the ways unions increase salary is to demand a percentage increase in salary in exchange for allowing management to make changes to the hiring process. A good union negotiator can destroy management's ability to run an agency at all without paying a salary increase to get the authority to make the change.
Can't say I'm 100% on board with that. Having worked in governmental agencies for around twenty years, it's been obvious to me that management's interest is seldom running a department effectively. When given free reign, department heads create small kingdoms, rewarding cronies and rear end kissers and squandering funds on their pet projects while ignoring core services. Just my experience.