larry_boy_44
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how about the fact that, unlike most employees (who are between about 20 and 40%), teachers are paid almost 100% more than their base salary in various benefits...This bill brings that more in line with the private sector (and other public sector employees, like, you know, federal employees)...The biggest problem with the way that this is done is that people think teachers only get like 40-60 K and that's it, which doesn't sound like a lot... But when you include their pensions and insurance benefits and other benefits, it ends up being a system that is unsustainable...beyond that, because they base their hiring/firing on tenure, districts regularly have to fire the best new teachers in favor of "veteran" teachers who no longer are trying. Last year Milwaukee gave a teacher essentially a "rookie of the year" award and then promptly fired her because she was new and they had to make cuts. Can you think of ANY other business/company/etc. that would fire a "rookie of the year"? I can't.Larry, please explain to me what waste we are now paying to teachers in "hidden" wages. You sound like you know what you are you are talking about so this should be easy.yes and corporation/employers have the right to ignore those organizations... The state of Wisconsin will no longer negotiate on certain aspects of compensation with public unions...and I think there is lots of waste, the waste we are dealing with right now is the waste paid to teachers in "hidden" wages... After we deal with that we can deal with other things... Just because other things suck doesn't mean we shouldn't fix other things that suck...I don't have any doubt that the pendulum swings too far one way or the other over time. It is possible that the pendulum swung too far in the direction of the teachers over time. Whether this is true or not is open to debate but what is not open to debate is that people have the right to organize themselves. Also, LOL at the extracting money from the taxpayers. You really believe the money that you think goes to "overpaying" teachers is greater than the waste that goes on in a variety of other gov't programs?The term "right" has significance. We, as Americans, have the right to free speech, right to bear arms, etc. I don't believe I've seen the "right to unionize" anywhere in our government papers.Federal public workers don't have this "right." Nor do public workers from 26 other states. If it were truly a right, would this be the case? I can see the value of private unions, as they must be willing to negotiate reasonably with their employers, because both sides success or failure is tied together. Public unions, on the other hand, do not. Their employer, the taxpayer, is not represented at the negotiating table. Public unions are more of a PAC than a workers rights group. One further point, Public unions in WI are not being outlawed. Their ability to hold taxpayers hostage with their demands has been removed. They have employment protections already in place through other WI laws. There is very little reason for the existence of public unions other than to continue to extract more and more money from the taxpayers.That is not the question I ask myself. My question is by what measure are Americans denied the right to organize themselves for their betterment. They don't need your permission.By what measure is/was it a right?Yeah, it is or at least was.bear - it's not a right.
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Anyone who thinks this is about fiscal responsibility is a fool.
It's just a Tempory injunction, the vote wasn't thrown out..
1. they aren't "rights", lawmakers can't just pass a bill to take away anything that is considered a "right"... they can't take away our "right" to vote... you should read the "bill of rights" and see what it talks about, I really don't think public unions come close to being as important as most of the stuff in there...
here, so we should all just ignore him, kinda like cr8f. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if bear was cr8f's alias.



Every post he makes is quite obviously 
