In Wisconsin, it’s illegal for teachers to strike.
That’s why teachers have been calling out “sick,” instead of declaring an outright strike.
In Madison, schools had to be closed Wednesday, Thursday, and today, due to the number of teachers out. The desperate school district went to court, arguing that the teacher absences constituted an illegal strike.
But Dane County Circuit Court judge Maryann Sum decided today that the teachers’ absences did not count as a strike.
However, Madison Teachers Inc., the union for Madison school teachers, has promised that teachers will return to work on Tuesday.
So, all of these teachers are legitimately sick, and unable to come to work, yet their union knows that they will all be healed and back to work on Tuesday. In order to buy this combination that judge must believe that there is a virus that selectively attacks teachers, but not students, administrators or janitors, and that union officials are psychic. Someone needs to start a recall petition on that judge.
I seem to recall that a lot of these "sick" teachers someone managed to drag their disease-ravaged bodies to some of the protests. There should be enough visual evidence from news and security cameras to identify a lot of them. Those pictures constitute evidence that at least some of the teachers were engaged in a wildcat strike, and be grounds for firing the individual teachers who are positively identified.
Actions have consequences. That's a lesson these teachers and other public "service" union members need to learn.
Regards,
Joe
(State employee)
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI support the Governor, the teachers should simply be replaced with non-union employees permanently.
The budget will be balanced and if the union keeps striking thousands will simply be unemployed.
Besides the teachers needing to be replaced
It is time for the Union to be busted
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