So will UNIONS and TEACHERS try to recall Jerry Brown?????? Is he ANTI UNION?

[busybody..]

MORE ON THOSE UNDERFUNDED / OVERGENEROUS PUBLIC PENSIONS: Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown To Seek Sweeping Pension Cuts.“Gov. Jerry Brown will propose sweeping rollbacks to public employee pension benefits in California, including raising the retirement age to 67 for new employees who are not public safety workers and requiring state and local employees to pay more toward their retirement and health care, according to a draft of the plan obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.”

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Did he run out of HisPANIC payola?

 

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[busybody..]

so will UNIONS do what they did in Wisconsin?

 

[unregistered]

 

[busybody..]

of course.....

after all, when Bush said

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE.....he was an evil COWBOY monster

when ClitBitch said

WE CAME HE DIED

that was MACHO!

HIPPO CREEPS

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Looks to me like the teacher/perfesser unions are gonna price themselves outta bidness.

A state judge here just ruled that the state cant make teachers contribute to their pensions. On the otherhand, as Justice Holmes said: THE CONSTITUTION DOESNT GUARANTEE THEM A JOB.

 

[koalabear]

The hard reality of the California economic situation. I've never liked Moonbeam, but if he does this without killing us with new taxes, I'll give him credit for doing the right thing. He needs to go a bit further however.

Unions are good at cutting the throats of new hires or those on pension. Government motors did the same trick. In reality it saves little unless it applies to all workers.

 

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[busybody..]

teachers PENSIONS and BENEFITS should be cut by 2/3rd's

if they dont like it

they should QUIT

or

teach in LIB! YEAH!

they pay better there

 

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[busybody..]

California has an army of 229,999 active employees and in 2008 paid retirement benefits to 476,252 retirees, survivors, and beneficiaries. They have to do something drastic.

export em

 

[busybody..]

ask EVERY SINGLE teacher to take a 50% paycut and 50% pension cut

if not

FIRE EM

or

KILL EM


Why Is There No Public School in Wisconsin Today?

October 27, 2011 11:18 A.M.

By Christian Schneider






Chris Rickert of the Wisconsin State Journal explains why Wisconsin’s schoolkids are all sitting home today:


Why, you ask, are classes canceled on this entirely unremarkable Thursday the week before Halloween? On a day not set aside for any national holiday, nor part of any traditionally recognized vacation season, nor beset by record-breaking snowfall or some other natural cataclysm?

Well, because historically, a couple of consecutive weekdays in October have been something of a Wisconsin public schools-recognized holiday — the traditional time for the annual convention of the statewide teachers union, the Wisconsin Education Association Council.

I know what you’re saying: “Don’t be ridiculous. Teachers have two and a half months in the summer to hold their convention! Why wouldn’t they have it then?”

And I hear you; an October teachers convention does defy logic. Yet, that’s been the case until this year, when things managed to get even more illogical.

This year, students are off even though the convention was canceled in April, apparently too late for some districts to update their calendars and schedule classes, assuming they wanted to. Many still have Thursday and Friday blocked off for the convention on their online calendars.

So Wisconsin kids will lose two days of instruction so their teachers can attend a union convention … that isn’t occurring. Instead of learning math and spelling, my two kids are currently sitting at home arguing about who gets to be Harry Potter for Halloween. (My four-week-old daughter is still bald, so in honor of the season finale of Breaking Bad, I was thinking she could be “Baby Heisenberg.”)

As to Rickert’s question about why teachers hold their convention in October: First of all, they do it simply because they can. (Thank you, collective bargaining!) But secondly, these conventions generally serve as campaign rallies. In even-numbered years, they occur a week before statewide elections for the state legislature, Congress, governor, etc. — and Democratic politicians flock to the WEAC convention to rally their troops. Holding the convention in, say, August, wouldn’t have the same effect.

— Christian Schneider is a senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.