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That study is a fraud made by a pro-union group. It looks at ALL school districts across the state. MOST school districts across the state did not have their contracts up for negotiation this year and thus were NOT able to dump the expensive union owned health insurance.
So most schools are still operating with the old failing system and of course losing jobs. Schools that have dumped the WEA Trust have kept or added jobs.
"Appleton isn’t alone. According to a report by the MacIver Institute, as of September 1, “at least 25 school districts in the Badger State had reported switching health care providers/plans or opening insurance bidding to outside companies.” The institute calculates that these steps will save the districts $211.45 per student. If the state’s other 250 districts currently served by WEA Trust follow suit, the savings statewide could reach hundreds of millions of dollars.
At the outset of the public-union standoff, educators had made dire predictions that Walker’s reforms would force schools to fire teachers. In February, to take one example, Madison School District Superintendent Dan Nerad predicted that 289 teachers in his district would be laid off. Walker insisted that his reforms were actually a job-retention program: by accepting small concessions in health and pension benefits, he argued, school districts would be able to spare hundreds of teachers’ jobs. The argument proved sound. So far, Nerad’s district has laid off no teachers at all, a pattern that has held in many of the state’s other large school districts. No teachers were laid off in Beloit and LaCrosse; Eau Claire saw a reduction of two teachers, while Racine and Wausau each laid off one. The Wauwatosa School District, which faced a $6.5 million shortfall, anticipated slashing 100 jobs—yet the new pension and health contributions saved them all."
Don't trouble these lefties with actual facts instead of their union propaganda. The "willfully ignorant" are proud members of the left who deal with reality very much like immature children.
If that's true then it's a horrible thing for the middle class. What is most disturbing is middle-class Republicans cheering the fall of unions, as if lower wages and longer hours are good for them. Just keep voting against your own interests, and voting Republican, and that's what you deserve.
Your poist is delusional.. Longer hours? As far as fair labor practices go, each state has a labor board to insure rights are not infringed on by companies.
A survey of Wisconsin school districts released this week has found that budget cuts imposed by Gov. Scott Walker and lawmakers have resulted in 3,368 net education job losses this academic year.
I saw slick Willy's last couple of appearances, and the boy looks like he has been hitting the bottle.
His hair hasn't been combed in days and he stammers and stutters like he has been taking speech lessons from obama....
He has every right to, since he has to live with hill the pill...
If that's true then it's a horrible thing for the middle class. What is most disturbing is middle-class Republicans cheering the fall of unions, as if lower wages and longer hours are good for them. Just keep voting against your own interests, and voting Republican, and that's what you deserve.
Unions are sucking Wisconsin dry.
They are acting like petulant children.
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