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No school in Newton on Monday
By adamg on Sun, 01/21/2024 - 9:25pm
Newton teachers are defying a court order and remaining off the job tomorrow after weekend bargaining sessions failed to produce an agreement.
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Lucky kids!
Lucky kids!
not so much
They'll have to make it up in June.
Yes.
But today they are happy.
Somebody gotta teach kids how
Somebody gotta teach kids how to disrespect the courts from early on
Civil disobedience
A week after MLK Jr. Day, it's good to engage in experiential learning about his legacy.
Newton can afford to pay teachers
Outlawing strikes is unconstitutional.
It should be, but it isn't.
We have an eighteenth century constitution, written for an agrarian society of gentlemen farmers. There were no industrial workers in America in 1787, and even in England, the industrial revolution was in its infancy. Unions and strikes were yet unheard of.
One has to assume....
... you mean this metaphorically.
Surely everyone at UHub knows that federal statute conveys the ability to collectively bargain and strike in private industry and state statute controls public employees.
Our constitutions have nothing to do with it.
I think they meant
The 13th Amendment, which prohibits slavery unless it's punishment for a crime.