Posted on 03/21/2011 5:41:12 PM PDT by Nachum
No wonder they hate Governor Scott Walker. Oshkosh teachers were getting 90 sick days a year… They only worked 180 days a year. Charlie Sykes reported:
This is what the Walker reforms look like in practice. One dazzling detail: up until now Oshkosh teachers got 90 sick days a year.
Unions representing teachers and other Oshkosh school district workers agreed to freeze wages, pay more for their benefits and allow administration to change health insurance providers in exchange for a one-year extension of their collective bargaining agreements.
The tentative contracts with the teachers’ union, paraprofessionals’ union and non-teaching employees’ union were hammered out in just two days and would cut district payroll costs by at least $4 million in the 2011-12 school year alone….
-The district would no longer pay the employees’ 5.8 percent share of pension contributions. This would save about $2.9 million.
-Employees would pay for 12 percent of their health insurance premiums instead of 5 percent. This would save about $1 million.
-District administration would be allowed to seek bids for cheaper health insurance providers or redesign insurance plans.
(Excerpt) Read more at gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com ...
So, they basically got to work half-time and get paid for full time. Featherbedding is as old as unions.
I would be thrilled to get 90 paid sick days a year. I would have qualms if they were paid for by the taxpayers.
I’m just guessing but I suspect these teachers could conceivably get through a school year with less than a month in the classroom. Sick days, personal days, and vacation days add up pretty quick.
90 days sick leave a year. What sacrifices these teachers are willing to make for the children. For the children don’t you understand.
If I had their benefits I would be on a beach trying to figure out how many drinks with little umbrellas it would take to "make me feel better".
As more and more of these scandalous “agreements” come to light, I suspect the Democrat senators will have more to fear from recall elections than the Republicans will.
Most of the public has NO idea how these contracts are put together or what is in them.
Confirmed, from a link found in the comments section:
I believe that is the summer months off. Here in Tejas thay can choose to be paid for nine months or over the twelve. However they in wisc are over compensated by laughable amounts. I say this considering results they are providing. I don’t care about test scores. I can tell you that my curriculum in highschool was much more difficult than what these kids are tested at today.
My Canadian Gf was union nurse for the province of BC. Largest nurses union in Canada. She was “allowed” (at taxpayer’s expense) 75 days of “time off” in a year while making $28/an hour. The dumb saps in the provincial govt just said yes to the union demands every year like idiots.
And everytime negotiations were at a standstill, they would play anti-American commercials and ads that if the province didn;t sign up for the new contract, we would end up like healthcare in America.
Stkes had a follow up caller after he confirmed the 90 day sick day policy. Caller claimesd it was not accueable or transferable to other uses (vavcation time etc) and had to be used for if and when serious illnesses struck. But I can’t confirm this or the callers assertions.
With 90 days a year, why would you need it to accrue?
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90 days a year is insane. I can see them accumulating time up to 90 days. Say they had 10 sick days a year (out of 180). If they used 3, they could carry over 7, and so on, against a time down the road when they would require a long-term leave of absence
A lot of teachers are young and in their child-producing years, and 3 months off is longer than most businesses allow, at least with ay, but not a bad use of extended, accumulated leave.
No, it is not the summer months off. They were getting 90 paid sick days a year during the school year of 183 days.
By gosh!
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Teachers would no longer receive 90 sick days per year. Instead, they would receive 10 sick days per year that could accumulate up to 90 days. Unused days would not be paid back.
These parasites used to get 90 sick days a year and the unused portion accumulates until retirement. At least, that's what I gather from the source. If that's not the case then I stand corrected. If it is the case, well what a nice little retirement windfall on the backs of the taxpayers...(true sentiment redacted)
Hey, cut the “teachers” some slack. After all they all “work on lesson plans” 24 hours each day; they are completely “underpaid”; they grade papers the rest of the time and spend untold thousands on supplies for their students. How many times have you heard these BS explanations from these whiny bi****s?
Fire the lot of them and start over without the ridiculous union contracts.
Freaking disgusting. Absolutely, disgusting moochers. May as well be on welfare. Outrageous. . .
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