18,000 Las Vegas Teachers Prepare to Illegaly Walkout – 7,000 NYC...
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Greetings from Sao Paulo, where Payday is preparing to go out to a Landless Workers Movement Settlement later in the day. However, I wanted to update you on the increase in teachers' strikes that we are seeing as the school year begins.  $160 Short of Paying for Brazilian Cameraman  The good...

In Las Vegas-area Clark County, over 18,000 teachers are preparing to strike. The teachers are upset that money set aside by the state to give teachers significant raises isn’t being used for that purpose.

Since teachers are not allowed to strike in Nevada, formal dates have yet to be set for a strike. However, teachers say they are prepared to begin engaging in walkouts unless something is done.

Teachers say they are refusing to work overtime until the situation is resolved. They are now asking that Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo intervene to resolve the dispute.

“It is reflective of a statewide problem right now. We have a crisis of vacancies, and it is not being addressed. The governor and the legislature passed money to address that, and it is not happening,” Clark County Education Association President John Vellardita told KTNV. “So we are asking for that intervention.”

For more, check out KTNV : https://www.ktnv.com/news/education/why-is-governor-lombardo-expected-to-step-in-on-clark-county-teacher-salary-negotiations-we-find-out

  • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    811·
    1 year ago

    I don’t understand how it would fit in anyone’s head that making a strike illegal would ever be a good idea.

    • silvershrimp0@kbin.social
      371·
      1 year ago

      An “illegal” strike basically just means it’s not protected. In other words, they can fire you for striking.

      • Lodespawn@kbin.social
        37·
        1 year ago

        I wonder who they plan on replacing the teachers with if they fire them given part of the reason the teachers are striking is a lack of teaching staff to fill available positions …

      • nik282000@lemmy.ml
        6·
        1 year ago

        If you’re going broke while working then getting fired for striking is kinda moot. Hopefully they get what they are asking for.

        Also, it super pisses me off that most people see striking employees, teachers and nurses in particular, as greedy or lazy. Raise your own fucking kids and treat your own illnesses if it is so easy.

      • huginn@feddit.it
        11·
        1 year ago

        For now.

        The whole labor relations board exists because strikes got brutal and bloody in the past.

        If all strikes are illegal then violent strikes are on the horizon if history is any measure.

        So it worked for them this time (they still had to make some tiny concessions, nowhere near enough).

    • huginn@feddit.it
      9·
      1 year ago

      The whole reason strikes are protected is to keep relations comparatively peaceful.

    • Nougat@kbin.social
      21·
      1 year ago

      Strike that. Reverse it.

      Prevent teachers from striking so that you can treat them like shit.

  • The_v@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 year ago

    Weird how they have a hard time filling positions. My school district had over 100 applicants for every job opening. Of course the lowest wage starts out at $59k for a BA and $72K for a masters.

    Vegas and here have similar costs of living.

    The Vegas county is proposing paying $52K to starting BA (up from 49k) and 65K for a masters degree (up from $49K!!!).

  • cazsiel@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    I wish they would. Better yet I wish everyone who has let the situation get this bad would be removed from their posts and barred from public service. They have failed time and time again and this is just their latest failure