Capistrano School Teachers On Strike Over Pay Cut

[Catshrink]

This is in Orange Co., CA

Hundreds of teachers are on strike in Orange County's second-largest school district in a long-running dispute over pay cuts.

Teachers and some students began picketing Thursday morning outside some schools in San Juan Capistrano.

The Capistrano Unified School District says all 56 campuses in south Orange County remain open with substitute teachers, but the school day will be shorter.

Striking teachers are being docked a day's pay. It was not clear how many would participate in the teacher strike, the county's first in a decade.

Teachers in the 52,000-student district are angry because the school board imposed a 10.1-percent pay cut in March after nearly a year of unsuccessful negotiations.

No new talks are scheduled with the 2,300-member teachers union.

http://cbs2.com/local/Orange.County.teachers.2.1649131.html

youtube video of teachers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1kl70dN-lo&feature=youtu.be&a

[paulsby]

1. wow. a 10% pay cut

and on a teacher's salary. that's substantial.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Re-posting a thought from last year:

It's all because there's no soil to grow food

Wait, that's not true...

It's all because we're out of oil.

Wait, we will be someday, but that doesn't explain our current problem.

It's because there's no one around to do any of the needed work.

No, that's not it, either.

It's because there are no raw materials around to make things out of.

Nope, still wrong.

Ask yourself: What did we have before the collapse that we don't have now.

Money. That's it. We have the people, the land, the raw materials, even the know-how.

We just don't have the money. Because it all burned up and we can't make any more.

No...

Because someone took it all and we haven't got the sense or the guts to take it back.

There. Finally. That's what it is.

[conscious evolution]

3. +3 brazillion

[jberryhill]

4. That's tough to swallow /nt

[LooseWilly]

5. 10 percent??

Ouch, I'd strike too.
Come to think of it, I quit my last job over considerably less cut in pay.

And having once been one of those subs that comes in for a long term job... the parents better seriously think about going ape shit in Capistrano... because a substitute doesn't get paid to come up with lesson plans, develop tests, grade homework... or turn in grades to the school administration.

Maybe they'll all just start homeschooling, free market style. What could go wrong?

[Starry Messenger]

6. Good for them!

That's totally ridiculous.

[Trillo]

7. "Teachers and some students"? Only "some" students?

Why aren't students required to have a sympathy strike with teachers? Providing substitute teachers kind of suggests that students shouldn't sympathy strike, the opposite message one would expect from any public school.