05-19-2012, 08:48 AM
I'm still fuming about this whole hot mess. This is totally unacceptable. All of it. Our teachers deserve a heck of alot better, and this union leadership is frankly, disturbing(for many years).
(*Snipped by me - more at link):
http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2012/0...-hot-seat/
Less than 12 hours before the hearing began, HSTA's Board of Directors officially declared that union members had elected Okabe to another term as their president.
Okabe withstood five hours of questioning from the union's attorney, Rebecca Covert, and Jim Halvorson of the state Attorney General's Office.
He was asked over and over about the contract negotiations process, both in specifics and generalities. But he stumbled at times over the implications of the "last, best, final offer" that was unilaterally implemented last summer.
One of the biggest revelations from the hearing was how little Okabe appeared to know about the implications of an impasse and a "last, best, final offer."
Watched this over the past years, all of the issues our teachers deal with, and the State and the union have both screwed the very people who are in charge of our future. Our kids suffer for these damn machinations. (Shutting up now...very angry about this.)
Thank you teachers for all of your hard work,dealing with our children,and these morons who have no clue the dedication you have deserves a standing ovation and a great contract! Just my own disgusted opinion. (sorry and thank you for letting me vent. UGH!)
(*Snipped by me - more at link):
http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2012/0...-hot-seat/
Less than 12 hours before the hearing began, HSTA's Board of Directors officially declared that union members had elected Okabe to another term as their president.
Okabe withstood five hours of questioning from the union's attorney, Rebecca Covert, and Jim Halvorson of the state Attorney General's Office.
He was asked over and over about the contract negotiations process, both in specifics and generalities. But he stumbled at times over the implications of the "last, best, final offer" that was unilaterally implemented last summer.
One of the biggest revelations from the hearing was how little Okabe appeared to know about the implications of an impasse and a "last, best, final offer."
Watched this over the past years, all of the issues our teachers deal with, and the State and the union have both screwed the very people who are in charge of our future. Our kids suffer for these damn machinations. (Shutting up now...very angry about this.)
Thank you teachers for all of your hard work,dealing with our children,and these morons who have no clue the dedication you have deserves a standing ovation and a great contract! Just my own disgusted opinion. (sorry and thank you for letting me vent. UGH!)