700 NYC Teachers Are Paid to do Nothing

I read about this earlier today. Doesn't seem right to me.

They need to schedule the disciplinary hearings ASAP.

Unions don't have anything to do with the BON.
I can't imagine a hospital letting this go on like this.
The school district seems to have incompetent management.
Wouldn't it be better to have smaller classes? Or more books, computers, trips to the museum?

I think the operative phrase here is incompetent management. Interesting how a manager's inability to follow through on disciplinary processes is somehow blamed on unions. Ditto on their inability to negotiate work rules that make sense and are fair to both sides of a disciplinary issue.

Given the political nature of public school systems, teachers need some kind of protection from arbitrary, politically motivated firing. If the unions are able to write favorable work rules into a contract that protect a teacher's salary during a disciplinary proceeding, then good for them. It's the union's job to advocate for the worker, preserve his/her job and protect from unfair threats to his/her livelihood. If the management can't negotiate reasonable limits to this, or is too lazy to follow negotiated procedures, how is that the union's fault?

I notice so many posts complaining that a union "did nothing to help me", yet when we see a union actually helping a worker, we're outraged. Guess it all depends on which side of the write-up you're on.

I love this image:



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cheers,

Oh my! I just kept scrolling down, and down and it kept going and going! :chuckle

I want to get paid for doing nothing, too.
No, it wouldn't happen in a hospital. You might get pulled from the bedside but you'd get turfed somewhere.

Uff da....

It really is a symptom of incompetent management.

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