Black People : What's Going on in Detroit? all P.S. Teachers face layoffs??

a contract is a binding agreement.

correct.. and there is a clause in that binding contract that allows what is happening to happen.
That "Binding" applies to both sides.. and the workers have to allow the
organization the flexibility to remain fiscally healthy. The workers are not
more important than the organization.. especially not in this case.. this is
not a private company where the ceo is making 30 million a year.. this is a
state run institution.. and the way it is funded is tied to enrollment.. so
there is really only one revenue stream..(there may be other revenue
streams: special taxes.. etc.., but none significant enough to put a
dent in a deficit equal to one third of the entire budget..) so every part of
the system is beholden to how many students the district attracts and
retains.. if those numbers are down the system has to contract.. period.
Non-essential programs are cut.. non-essential manpower is cut..
discretionary spending is limited.. those are the economic facts of life..
arguing with that is really futile.. there's no way to make a dollar out of 15 cents..​
 
It wasn't the people and/or the unions who created this mess!

ah.. the blame game... how does that solve the problem though? Obviously,
the entire state of Michigan is reeling from the collapse of the Auto Industry..
just as the entire country is reeling from the collapse of the american economy..
it's immature for any group of people to think they will not be affected.. that
some contract will protect them from the harsh realities that the vast majority
of us face every day.. we sink or swim based on our own individual performance.
Our companies keep us because we bring value.. not because they promised
they would.. it seems to me that a profession as important as teaching
could benefit from the same type of reality.

Answer this Chuck:

So the economic basis of your organization collapses.. the money stops
coming in the way it used to.. your only bringing in 60 percent of what you
used to.. while the expenses are steadily climbing.. healthcare.. utilities..
etc.. if you do not solve this problem before next month, you will have to
close down your shop. What do you do?​
 


ah.. the blame game... how does that solve the problem though? Obviously,
the entire state of Michigan is reeling from the collapse of the Auto Industry..
just as the entire country is reeling from the collapse of the american economy..
it's immature for any group of people to think they will not be affected.. that
some contract will protect them from the harsh realities that the vast majority
of us face every day.. we sink or swim based on our own individual performance.
Our companies keep us because we bring value.. not because they promised
they would.. it seems to me that a profession as important as teaching
could benefit from the same type of reality.

Answer this Chuck:

So the economic basis of your organization collapses.. the money stops
coming in the way it used to.. your only bringing in 60 percent of what you
used to.. while the expenses are steadily climbing.. healthcare.. utilities..
etc.. if you do not solve this problem before next month, you will have to
close down your shop. What do you do?​
individual what????

Black folks are not the only ones that use the term collective

Libertarians use that word also and the do not use it as something positive but something negtive when they speak about the unity of focus action and purpose of the oligarchy in causing

impoverishment
and
manufacuring outsourcing
and
the privatizaton of pulbic utilites, and basic services that people pay taxes for,
not bull crap wars
and the destructiion of the only protection an individual has against the abuses and excess in the coroprate work environment

the unions!

People are not stupid
and are aware of US history and union bashing
and world history and the importance of union bashing to the advancement of fascism, in Germany, Spain, Argentina and Italy

public schools needed union teachers and now with the corporate take over of the schools,
unions are needed even more.

Trusting corporations to have even a modicum of decency is like leaving ones child in a day care run by a known pedarast.
 
Answer this Chuck:

So the economic basis of your organization collapses.. the money stops
coming in the way it used to.. your only bringing in 60 percent of what you
used to.. while the expenses are steadily climbing.. healthcare.. utilities..
etc.. if you do not solve this problem before next month, you will have to
close down your shop. What do you do?[/INDENT]

Blame the unions and the workers, while still collecting a 6-figure salary.

:thinking:
 

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