Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Our own worst enemies. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Our own worst enemies. « Fred Klonsky's blog:

Our own worst enemies.

I don’t know the teachers at the three schools who voted to waive their Collective Bargaining Agreement rights and take the Mayor’s offer for 90 extra minutes a day and what is essentially 2% less pay than they were contractually promised.

I don’t know if they are young or veteran teachers. I don’t know how much administrative pressure there was. Or how bad they need the job. Or if they think they are doing what’s best for their students.

Whatever.

They are wrong.

And if the Mayor succeeds in his attempt to bust the contract and the union. If he succeeds in driving a wedge