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January 17, 2006
Don't like the contract? Vandalize board members' homes
Brief item this week in L.A. Times: "The homes of four elected officials were vandalized after a heated school board meeting in which the teachers union demanded a better pay raise. Four of the five Walnut Valley Unified School District board members found red paint splattered on their driveways early Friday. At least two also found threatening letters."
Details here about one bizarre teachers' union demonstration in that school district hours before the vandalism:
In the midst of stalled contract negotiations, teachers union president Jim Faren told the school board that "my fellow colleagues are looking for a real pay day, not a hollow pay day."
To show he was serious, Faren placed an empty Payday candy bar wrapper in front of Larry Redinger, board member of Walnut Valley Unified School District. With that, a sea of red-shirt-wearing teachers got up from their seats and littered empty Payday wrappers in front of the school board and superintendent Kent Bechler. About 150 to 200 teachers, all wearing red T-shirts, packed into the board room and overflowed into the district office lobby and hallways Thursday night to ask for better pay.
Speaking about the vandalism, the union says it "does not condone this type of activity." The district is offering a 4 percent pay increase and the teachers want 5. School officials said the extra 1 percent would mean cuts to programs and staffing.
Posted January 17, 2006 3:59 PM |
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