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Originally Posted by shines
So my younger brother calls me today to say he received a job offer as a high school mathematics teacher. He said they told him he must attend a union orientation meeting within his first two weeks on the job, he tells them he doesn't want to join the union. To which they say, it's mandatory if you want the job.
To top it off, the union dues are to be automatically withheld from his paycheck! This is for a county teaching position, which is government managed; the government can't legally fire people w/o cause and they never do anyway, so what's the point of the damn union?
Anyway, are they jerking him around or is this legit? Sounds like BS to me. I need him to get a job so he stops borrowing money from me!  |
The county can and will fire teachers without cause. If you are nontenured, your job is on the line every day just like everyone else's. He should be glad that he has a union that can negotiate for him. TN passed laws this year that basically stripped our teacher unions of all their powers and they can't do anything for me that I need done. They are slowly but surely taking away what few rights teachers did have. I teach all day and there are times that I would just like to go to the bathroom, but I can't due to my schedule and the liability of leaving 23 ten-year-olds unattended for even a second. If something happened while I was out, my district is not going to back me up - my union would have. I am a tenured teacher of 16 years with several degrees and an awesome track record. I could be fired at the end of the year without any "real" reason if they just felt like I was making too much money. They can hire two brand-new teachers for the price of one of me now that there is no union to stand in the way. With jobs being what they are in education, he should take the job and stop whining about Union dues.