Tennessee Trumps Wisconsin: Kills Teacher Collective Bargaining. Dead.
by Kyle Olson

To fix public schools, you have to control public schools.
And there's little control when teachers unions, with their self-serving agendas, question every cost-cutting proposal and reform on the table.
That's why so many state governments have taken swift action to limit the power of organized labor in public schools. Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Idaho and Michigan were the first, and Tennessee added itself to the list on Wednesday.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam affixed his signature on House Bill 130 and Senate Bill 113, ending collective bargaining and giving local school boards the full authority to operate their districts in the manner they choose.

That doesn't mean the unions are shut out of the discussion. The new laws create a process called "collaborative conferencing," where the school board, administrators and union officials will be forced to sit and discuss many of the normal issues, including salary, insurance, grievance procedures and working conditions.
If the two sides agree on any number of issues, they can sign binding "memorandums of understanding," that will serve the same purpose as collective bargaining agreements. But any issues that are left unsettled will be the sole domain of the school board, with no appellate procedure available to the unions.

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I am proud of Tennessee.

Excellent news!
I hope to read about Calif. doing the same, that is before I'm dead, but I doubt it.

Good news indeed. Just to keep everyone up on the score -

Georgia, Oklahoma, Indiana, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, New Jersey and South Carolina have all enacted education choice laws of various kinds. Some opted to increase charters, others to increase or enact voucher programs and a few to enact/expand education tax-credit programs. Michigan, and I can hardly believe the possibility's being bandied about, may dissolve the Detroit Public Schools district.

I know that kind of thing isn't exactly the same thing as trimming collective bargaining privileges but none of those education choice programs would've passed if the teacher's unions had had their druthers.

Quote from: Solar on June 06, 2011, 08:24:37 AM
Excellent news!
I hope to read about Calif. doing the same, that is before I'm dead, but I doubt it.

California isn't going to do anything to save itself. They're betting on the rest of the country having to come to their rescue.

Quote from: mdgiles on June 06, 2011, 09:50:22 AM
California isn't going to do anything to save itself. They're betting on the rest of the country having to come to their rescue.

Yep, we need to collapse on our own, then and only then will the left lose its death grip on the State.
I just wish it would hurry up and die.

Quote from: Solar on June 06, 2011, 09:53:19 AM
Yep, we need to collapse on our own, then and only then will the left lose its death grip on the State.
I just wish it would hurry up and die.

They're Lefty Toons, when they go, they'll try and take as much down as they can with them.
I figure their last move will be to open the borders, and flood California - and the surrounding states - with illegals.

Quote from: Solar on June 06, 2011, 09:53:19 AM
Yep, we need to collapse on our own, then and only then will the left lose its death grip on the State.
I just wish it would hurry up and die.

You don't think that non-partisan redistricting committee is going to change things?

A good part of the Democrat's grip on power in Cali is due to where the district lines currently fall. If those lines change you don't think the makeup of the legislature will change?

Quote from: arpad on June 06, 2011, 12:05:41 PM
You don't think that non-partisan redistricting committee is going to change things?

A good part of the Democrat's grip on power in Cali is due to where the district lines currently fall. If those lines change you don't think the makeup of the legislature will change?

The Dims, have been importing an entirely new and subservient voting population. They are not going to lose. Actual American citizens will be outvoted by the bogus ones. Watch.  :(

Quote from: mdgiles on June 06, 2011, 09:58:04 AM
They're Lefty Toons, when they go, they'll try and take as much down as they can with them.
I figure their last move will be to open the borders, and flood California - and the surrounding states - with illegals.

So you're saying the left is in the process of leaving, seeing how they're in the process of this already?

Quote from: arpad on June 06, 2011, 12:05:41 PM
You don't think that non-partisan redistricting committee is going to change things?

A good part of the Democrat's grip on power in Cali is due to where the district lines currently fall. If those lines change you don't think the makeup of the legislature will change?

Being a native, I watched the third largest economy in the World, collapse under the weight of socialism, it was a slow process, about 40 years plus.
I just don't know if its not too late to save it, too many on the gov teat, unless they leave, the leftists could still hold power.
It has to do with illegals voting, and we have a lot of them milking the system.

I have hope, but not a lot, we also have a bunch of RINO in the Legislature and that plays against my hopes as well.

Solar, out of curiosity, which side of the San Andreas fault do you live on? (And that's me ending a sentence a preposition with.  :P :P :P )

Quote from: tbone0106 on June 06, 2011, 12:43:00 PM
Solar, out of curiosity, which side of the San Andreas fault do you live on? (And that's me ending a sentence a preposition with.  :P :P :P )

Ya know, its funny, the fault almost seems to be drawn by God himself, to the West, libs galore, to the north of it, clear thinking people.
But at the South end, you have LA, and it would eat the entire city.

Me, I live north of all of it, way up in the Sierra Nevada range, where if it ever happens, I'll have a nice view of the ocean. 8)

Quote from: Solar on June 06, 2011, 12:50:07 PM
Ya know, its funny, the fault almost seems to be drawn by God himself, to the West, libs galore, to the north of it, clear thinking people.
But at the South end, you have LA, and it would eat the entire city.

Me, I live north of all of it, way up in the Sierra Nevada range, where if it ever happens, I'll have a nice view of the ocean. 8)

In that case start buying up property so when it happens you can sell it as "ocean view"...

Quote from: Santa Barbara Machine Head on June 06, 2011, 05:55:23 PM
In that case start buying up property so when it happens you can sell it as "ocean view"...

I should list it that way now, and freak out the libs in the Bay area. :D