Labor
When we at Anchor Rising and the Providence Journal’s Bob Kerr are (at the least) headed toward the same page, you might want to turn some of your questions inward: A lot of years later, conditions are obviously better. Teacher pay has gotten downright comfortable. Teachers are often seen showing up at school in some…
Another Lie by the NEA: East Greenwich Teachers Would Take Pay Cuts Under School Committee Proposals
One of the other lies being spread by the NEA is that the proposals offered by the East Greenwich School Committee would result in pay cuts for teachers. The NEA tried to pass off this lie as fact in 2004-05 and Anchor Rising showed it was a lie then. And it is a lie in…
More details when we have them. UPDATE I just got off the phone with Superintendent Charlie Meyers who told me the Judge made these primary points at court this afternoon: There would be irreparable harm if the children were not back in school tomorrow. The School Department clearly demonstrated the point about irreparable harm in…
The NEA disinformation campaign continues. It is so patheticly transparent that it should be funny. But it is hard to laugh when they willingly and consciously exploit our children as pawns in their game of greed. However, just like we saw during the collapse of the Iron Curtain, technology allows us to immediately skewer the…
A late Wednesday night press release (a Word document) from the East Greenwich School Committee: The East Greenwich School Committee is disappointed and frustrated that the East Greenwich teachers’ union has decided to continue their strike and refuse to return to school. When the Committee asked the union to return to the classrooms while continuing…
As we debate the teachers’ strikes, some of the issues at stake took me back to my second post ever on Anchor Rising: Talking about a pro-tax ballot initiative defeated in Oregon during 2002, a Wall Street Journal editorial stated: When the budget issue is framed in terms of higher taxes, voters don’t understand why…
Using his Rhode Island Law Journal blog for a much needed function, Jon Pincince digs into the judicial side of teacher strike law. You can go there for some relevant quotations from School Committee of the Town of Westerly v. Westerly Teachers Association (1973), but the part that requires further exploration is this: [This] does…
I wrote these words about the NEA’s last disinformation campaign in East Greenwich back in 2004-2005: Comments by National Education Association (NEA) teachers’ union officials remind me of words spoken years ago by Soviet officials, whose views of the world were subsequently shown to have no connection to any form of reality. As the union…
Don Hawthorne will continue his media blitz and appear on Dan Yorke’s radio show this afternoon to talk about the East Greenwich teachers’ strike. Tune in! UPDATE: Don will be on air during the 4 O’Clock hour.
A lot of words are being said as the East Greenwich teachers go out on strike. Many of the public comments by union officials and some teachers have nothing to do with the facts. These contract negotiations and strikes are not about doing right by our children or about education. They are about maximizing adult…