Labor
Still nothing from the NEA so the “pay cut” analysis hostage day count continues. Day 5 is now history. We eagerly await a response! The offer to post it here on Anchor Rising remains open. Here is our analysis showing there is NO “pay cut.” It even comes with spreadsheets and documented assumptions for public…
Still nothing from the NEA so the “pay cut” analysis hostage day count continues. Day 4 is now history. We eagerly await a response! The offer to post it here on Anchor Rising remains open. Prove us wrong and we will admit to it. Or ‘fess up that your claim about East Greenwich teachers taking…
Are East Greenwich teachers being asked to take “pay cuts” by the School Committee? The NEA says yes but cannot and will not prove it. What follows below is an analysis which shows the “pay cut” claim is a lie and that can only mean the NEA is intentionally misleading East Greenwich residents. Background In…
Still nothing from the NEA so the “pay cut” analysis hostage day count continues. Day 3 is now history. We eagerly await a response! The offer to post it here on Anchor Rising remains open. Prove us wrong and we will admit to it. Or ‘fess up that your claim about East Greenwich teachers taking…
The NEA’s very public claim that the East Greenwich School Committee’s contract proposals would result in “pay cuts” for teachers has been discredited in this post and several earlier posts mentioned at the beginning of that referenced post. Along the way, many commentators on this blog and I have all challenged the NEA to put…
In a comment to the previous post, WillP asks why we haven’t mentioned this: Tiverton police officers are looking forward to their paychecks that will contain 14 months of retroactive salary increases. Fourteen months’ worth of retroactive health-care co-share increases, however, will reduce that amount. The 26 members of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers,…
WillP left a curious comment to my “Just a Quick Shake of the Head” post: On what basis do you assume that this is an “unaffordable contract?” Do you have access to details of the current contract negotiations or budget data that the rest of us residents and parents don’t have? Again, you are assuming…
Hot on the heels of the Tiverton teachers’ union’s unanimous vote to follow a moderated work-to-rule practice as a negotiating tactic, Schools Superintendent William Rearick has done the minimum that most bosses would do were employees to openly skip work for an expressly inappropriate reason: The teachers’ union is balking at Schools Supt. William J.…
Today’s East Greenwich Pendulum town newspaper contains a Viewpoint editorial in which I wrote these words: The NEA teachers’ union strike and their contract demands are not about doing right by our children or about education. They are about maximizing adult entitlements where the NEA is willing to use our children as pawns to get…
I got a phone call today which passed along the following story: When the Judge recently heard the case involving the illegal East Greenwich teachers’ union strike, a teacher went up to a parent at the courthouse and said “Thank you for your support.” To which the parent replied: “I am supporting my child’s education…