Posted on 01/18/2019 10:55:22 PM PST by L.A.Justice
For 26 days, furloughed U.S. government workers have been wondering when they will be able to work and get paid. For three days, Los Angeles public school teachers have been wondering the same. For a number of families, both uncertainties are a reality.
In families in which one partner works for the Los Angeles Unified School District and the other works for the federal government, the new year has started with two missing paychecks.
Xochilt Valdivia-Ford was well prepared to strike, she thought. The second-grade teacher at Montara Avenue Elementary School in South Gate, like the 30,000 other teachers currently on the picket line in Los Angeles knew the walkout was a possibility and knew what it could cost, she said.
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Despite all of her planning and savings, the couple was not prepared for the shutdown. Her husband works for the Department of Justice and has been working without a paycheck for nearly four weeks.
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The Whitney family finds itself in a similar situation. Elementary school teacher Shannon Whitney's husband, Ben, works for the Department of Homeland Security, which remains unfunded. As a result, neither Whitney is getting paid.
"Goodness, we didn't want to strike but we have a nurse one day a week, we have a counselor one day a week, and we want it for our students, so we're going for it," Whitney told ABC News. "But it's been difficult with him being furloughed and not being paid."
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But these teachers say there's a difference between a strike and a shutdown.
"I am choosing to lose income for something righteous: improving and strengthening public education," Valdivia-Ford said. "The shutdown takes income from people like myself who will never support a wall."
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OK...I do understand that teachers wants to get paid more...They have to pay for mortgage...They have to save money for their kids' college education...I am annoyed when teachers refuse to concede that they are striking mainly to get a pay raise...
They want smaller class sizes and more support people...Will striking LAUSD teachers accept pay cuts to hire more people? I don't think so.
I feel sorry for husbands who cannot work because of government shut down...But, I do not feel sorry for wives who decided to go on strike...Those ladies chose to forfeit pay by going on strike...They could choose not to join the strike...I know...They will be called "scabs"...
In 1989, LAUSD teachers went on strike for 9 days...I was in an LAUSD high school back then...One of my teachers refused to go on strike...He was part of strike back in 1970s. He said that he had to borrow money to pay bills because he went on strike...He did not want to go on the strike again...
My prediction is that the union will end the strike after one week...The district could offer the pay increase demanded by the union but refuse to hire more staff...The teachers may be tempted to take that offer after one week...
I have to disagree with Ms. Valdivia-Ford...There is nothing wrong with building wall...You are choosing to forfeit pay because you want more money in your bank account...If you really are upset by big class sizes, you should offer to take a pay cut...Then district could have more money to hire more teachers.
Do teachers on strike in LA school district get paid while they are on strike?
Well adults, your actions have consequences. Unintended or otherwise. You be grownup and own up.
All of this has demonstrated that a significant number of Americans simply don’t have an emergency savings situation. They are living paycheck-to-paycheck, and survival is based on a max of 30 days without pay.
When you have a couple who have a combined income of $100,000 a year, and there is massive debt which cancels out the entire flow of money....there’s something wrong.
Between tyre teachers union and Nancy Pelosi, it must be hard to figure out whom to hate more!!
Federal government unions are not authorized by the constitution.
Do teachers on strike in LA school district get paid while they are on strike?
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No, teachers forfeit pay...
Union wants us to believe that teachers are forfeiting pay for smaller class sizes...
“I feel sorry for husbands who cannot work because of government shut down...”
I’m a husband, contract work for 43 years.
Raised two kids, bought 5 different homes,
and I love all 5 of my cars. There were
times I’d go 6 months without a paycheck.
I’ve never been late with a bill, and
my family never starved. It’s called
planning, and no matter how much you
make, it’s living within your means.
Those in government know that shutdowns
happen, and should plan for the day
they come about. No sympathy here.
Boohoo, cry me a river. These civil servants are the first who would go after the family of a disabled soldier at the VA... they talk like they come back from Vietnam
“You’re too qualified to be mayor of LA or governor of California. Sorry. People who are frugal and plan ahead for problems aren’t qualified to ignore and avoid problems that come up on a statewide or city level”.
“Try a manufacturing company. They plan ahead, unlike govt.
Good luck in getting an honest job”. Gov. Newsome
Here’s a sob story about a “shutdown” never mentioned
Not dare refer to the most costly and disgraceful results from a “shutdown” that happened during Nixon’s presidency. Caused by the democrats refusal to stand by the Vietnamese effort to remain independent by refusing them air support and supplemental funding of arm supplies which would have prevented that loss and that humiliating disgraceful evacuation of our Saigon embassy.
Which quickly then resulted in a multitude of Vietnamese being slaughtered and the sacrifices of thousands of our armed forces paying with their 58,000 lives assisting them in their fight for freedom dishonored..
Xochilt Valdivia-Ford #$#$!@#@#$$#@!!@#$$%%$$......what?
If you removed every illegal alien child in the LA school district the class size would be 10 per teacher.
The Donald made a mistake promising back pay to nonessential government workers. He’d have the wall by now.
On the bright side, he has an opportunity to identify and RIF unneeded employees. A good tactic would be to furlough 10,000 workers every Friday for the duration of the shutdown.
One positive note (among many) is that the federal workers are getting come insight into how their employers (the taxpayers) live.
Any family with one spouse on the fed payroll and the other on LA’s municipal payroll gets no sympathy from me; the costs and voting habits of such pairs are the source of many of our problems today (a disconnected public employee caste that demands more and more).
If you really are upset by big class sizes They should protest sanctuary policies that encourage illegal migration into there district that impoverish everyone and overwhelm public services such as schools. There, fixed it for ya.
This is why you should not have forced taxation through property taxes to support education in this country. The leaches become teachers and keep demanding more and more. Privitize education.
JoMa
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