This may discourage membership and hurt funding. The employees want a union that will take action not not a union that will prevent action. The union relied on the fees to fund operations. The decision gave employees the option to not pay fair share fees to unions. Over the summer The Supreme Court had a ruling known as Janus. On the other side the union is preventing dedicated school employees from taking action to fight for the conditions of students and staff.Īrticle 16 on page 3 of the PDF show proposed change to strike procedures. On one side the union is preventing a disruption of free childcare for Minneapolis families. This a slick proactive move to prevent a strike Requiring 60 - 180 more votes is enough to prevent the strike from taking place. A 3% increase in the vote requirements is small enough that no one was supposed to notice the change. It takes time and effort to go to union office to vote. Teachers and support staff have lives outside of work and politics. The increase would require 58 more employees to approve a strike.
There are about 1689 education support professionals. The increase would require 182 more employees to approve a strike. The proposed changes would require 70% approval of employees for a strike to take place. The union leadership is attempting to increase the requirements for a strike. The current constitution and bylaws of the union require a 2/3 (66.6%) approval of employees to strike.
The executive board of Minneapolis a Federation of Teachers 59 and Education Support Professionals 59 are taking action to prevent the employees from going on strike. The employees of our local school district would love to take action to improve the conditions for students and employees. The education workers of Minnesota support the actions of education employees in other states. California and Washington are preparing action for the new school year. These strikes and walk outs are now spreading to liberal blue states.
In Southern conservative red states teachers organized strikes and walk outs to improve the conditions for students and employees in their school districts. At the end of last school year the "Teachers Spring" started.
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