Oklahoma teachers planning statewide strike

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Hill

Oklahoma public school teachers are planning a statewide strike for sometime in the coming weeks.

More than 25,000 people have joined the Facebook group "Oklahoma Teacher Walkout - The Time Is Now!" and a group of educators met Friday to discuss plans for the walkout, according to Tulsa's KTUL.

"We are to the point where we have no other option," one teacher told KTUL.

The teachers are frustrated with lawmakers' lack of action on increasing teacher salaries. The state's teachers are reportedly some of the lowest-paid in the nation, according to KTUL.



Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/376600-oklahoma-teachers-planning-statewide-strike

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The Repugs are happy to offer teachers guns but not a fair salary, let alone respect.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. So they join West Virginia -

- and regarding the same issue. They have to understand that the GOP does not want "government" nor do they want "education" except what they mete out from some store front church.

[bobbieinok]

2. Is it true that some OK school districts are so cash poor they've gone to a 4day school week?

[gay texan]

4. yes. n/t

[Bengus81]

10. Hell former Gov Brokeback of Kansas did all he could to TRASH public schools here...

With his ZERO percent tax rate for Corporations for nearly four years. If those cuts hadn't been reversed last year we might have been on a three day school week here. Now we still have nearly a billion $$$ budget shortfall and it will take years of tax revenue to turn this around.


Republicans at your service,same melt down will happen once this Trump give away to Corps gets rolling.

[not fooled]

3. Cut cut cut taxes on the rich

and this is what you get. The chickens are now coming home to roost.

Any worker including teachers who have voted GOPeePee own this.

I know teachers who have voted puke over the years "because they will lower my taxes" who have no clue about the plans behind the tax cuts.

Of course most teachers are not implicated and we all have to work together to get out of the hole the pukes have dug us.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I feel like Norma Rae

when she hold up the UNION sign. Speaking as a former teachers' union rep in San Diego we stand with you W Virginia and Oklahoma!

[DAMANgoldberg]

6. Seen the inside of this facility

This film was made in Opelika Alabama (Lee County-home of Auburn University). When I was a student in the 80s at the University, Opelika is the neighboring town. This plant was the Opelika Industries plant on 1st Avenue around 16th Street in what is called the "Mill Village" because there is also at the time, a huge West Point/Pepperell textile mill on the old US 29, Pepperell Parkway. Brings back memories and recognizable scenes.

https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/14000090.htm

This is a more recent image. Hard to tell that this was a working facility and a movie location.

[BigmanPigman]

7. It looks like a ghost town.

I know it isn't in the rust belt but it could be easily. It closed only 12 years AGO? It looks like it has been vacant for a lot longer than that.

[DAMANgoldberg]

8. Opelika in particular

has moved on from this "heritage". The city is more or less a typical new southern town that happens to next to a major University. The largest employer there is the East Alabama Medical Center, 2nd only to Auburn University countywide.

http://www.opelikaeconomicdevelopment.org/Default.asp?ID=1665&pg=Largest+Employers+MSA

[Sancho]

9. Organize!