05-18-2012, 07:30 AM
I just want people to be aware that the HSTA has not given Hawaii teachers realistic choices in this round of contract voting. What the media is reporting is that teachers are being given the chance to revote on the offer we already overwhelmingly rejected AND the opportunity to authorize a strike. Instead when I went to vote we had only two options: the contract language we already rejected, which the employer (State of Hawaii) has said is no longer an option, or to vote to strike. No other choices were given us.
The option many teachers wanted, the option we had been led to believe would be available to us, was to again reject the contract, reject striking, and send a message to our union to get off their butts and negotiate a fair contract. This was not an option given to us. I am furious and frustrated with the HSTA "leadership" who do not seem to know how to actually lead and serve the dues paying union members who pay their salaries.
Carol
The option many teachers wanted, the option we had been led to believe would be available to us, was to again reject the contract, reject striking, and send a message to our union to get off their butts and negotiate a fair contract. This was not an option given to us. I am furious and frustrated with the HSTA "leadership" who do not seem to know how to actually lead and serve the dues paying union members who pay their salaries.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb