[quote=Doooh]What school district. I had a friend who worked at a private school. Those guys were on a true free market system and got paid pennies as teacher… The way it should be. There’s always somebody else who would love to have that job.
3 months off for summer and another month off between Christmas, presidents week, and spring break. 2 weeks in sick time and paid vacation days, and he’ll a teacher is approaching the half a year mark of time off. This is considered part time work were I come from.
$80k and health benefits for 7 months of work is a JOKE! Teachers should not be sacred cows, they the majority of the problem. What’s the % of the budget we spend on education here in CA?
I left my spelling and grammar errors in place so our local Piggington teachers would have some sort of leg to stand on when they try to argue their value.[/quote]
There’s always somebody else willing to do **anybody’s** job for less these days.
The private sector workers are buoyed by those “evil” public sector unions as well. Private sector employees can easily migrate to public sector work if the disparity in compensation gets too large, and this sets a floor for wages in the private sector.
Until very recently, there were PLENTY of jobs in the public sector. If the private sector workers were so underpaid, why didn’t they migrate to those “overpaid” govt jobs?
I would love to hear a well-reasoned, detailed response that outlines how private sector workers would benefit from the decimation of unions. Do you really think your taxes would go down enough to compensate for the lower wages/benefits you’d get as a result of a fully non-unionized workforce? The only people who will benefit from the demise of the unions are the financial and corporate theives who have driven this country — and the world — to the brink of economic destruction.
If the public unions are broken, the private sector workers will fall with them.
