The entire point of a labor demonstration IS to cause an inconvenience. If there is no inconvenience, there is no possibility for change to occur in those situations.

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>If government is going to change the law to permit teachers to strike, it should only be during the summer

Are you really suggesting that they strike during a period in which they aren't under contract? That's like striking from a bagel shop that you haven't worked at in years...

Doing as you suggest will 100% get that teacher fired for cause.

You have no idea what serfdom was like.

While I’m sure other districts pay teachers like this, not every single one does and many give individual teachers options (out of a set) on how they want to be paid.

Many other jobs/employers also have claw back provisions on compensation so teachers wouldn’t be unique in this regard.

I’ll get downloaded to all hell for this, but teachers striking during the school year causes incredible educational disruption and harm to students, not to mention their families. It can directly create unsafe environments for children and our communities.

If government is going to change the law to permit teachers to strike, it should only be during the summer or other, ‘non-teaching’ working days (e.g. professional development).

Most importantly, the government should change the laws to force school districts and local governments to come to the table during negotiations in good faith. The legislature should outline what ‘good faith’ negotiations entail, and put in place direct penalties for district that do not follow those guidelines. These regs must be highly responsive given the cost of even one day of bad negations out of contract.

Public schools have understandably had their reliability questioned given many districts response to the pandemic, remote/digital school adaptation. A lot of families are questioning if they can be relied upon to be there for the kids and their families. I’m not saying it’s the teachers fault, but allowing strikes could further weaken people’s faith in their reliability. The legislature should reform the other side of the negotiation table (districts) to fix this issue. Law makers can do it in conjunction with their constituents and unions to come up with a law that would satisfy them (without the right to strike).

Unpopular opinion: the teacher should not have gone on strike.

They should instead have used that same time to teach students about the labor movement, the importance of striking as a way of maintaining a balance of power in the employee/employer relationship. They also should've taught the students about the abuse of power used to suppress the voice of the people.

Yeah, the teachers would been teaching. Just not the lessons the powers that be wanted taught.

Right, which is why they told him to stop, and he did. I don't see an issue.

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Good. Let the police, fire, and highway departments that are also working without a contract strike.

There are more people leaving this state than moving here. No influx of any group is pushing you out. It’s for profit housing/NIMBYism that failed to meet the demand of the the large group of millennials entering the housing market. There’s absolutely 0 reason to point the finger at tech people when migration to this state is negative. They aren’t raising or lowering your housing prices. With or without the tech industry, housing would be an issue. The “large group” you are referring to are Millennials, the largest generation group in the US, coming of age.

Millennials are the second largest generation ever, and adding them to a housing market which was already precarious for Gen X has absolutely fucked the housing market in states that don’t have much unincorporated land left. Massachusetts has no unincorporated land remaining.

Nope. You didn’t do your job first, I’m not obligated to engage with somebody who is calling me brainwashed. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😫 Bye!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Districts have been low balling teachers for years - providing them with a 1-2% raise after dragging on negotiations for a few years. And all the teachers are working without a contract. I think other districts are seeing the success of striking and thinking it’s a risk worth taking. These districts better start negotiating in good faith to avoid strikes.

Don’t give them any ideas.

‘Publicly reprimanded’ so…. No real punishment or accountability?

Link to another source that counters it. How hard is that?

If you can look at roads in MA and the money we spend on them and think it's all good, you've clearly been brainwashed.

Realize you doing a shitty job costs normal people money and puts them in danger. Sleep well.

Lol, sure thing. Bye!!

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Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! Stockholm syndrome and dunning Kruger? Oh my god.. you have no idea what you are linking to. You think I identify with my kidnappers? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!

And that source is not credible no matter how many times you pretend it is.

Bye!

I think most places do nowadays. They may however require you to show up every third or fourth visit. This is usually because it is very difficult to assess how depressed someone might be if you never see them in person. People sometimes show up at appointments disheveled which could make the psychiatrist aware how badly they are doing and can assess for suicidality and such. You can often cover things like this up if all your appointments are via telehealth.

I'm willing to bet that at least 2 more districts will go on strike between now and April. It started with Brookline, Teacher Unions realized that all the gov't will do is threaten them.

Look at Woburn whose mayor was an exceptional idiot and tried pulling some dumb shit. In the end they still got what they wanted...

you typed all that and u could have just said capitalism / for profit housing.......

i never said tech ppl CAUSED anything. but that's one large group of ppl moving here that aren't from here. don't misconstrue.

Lmao. I don’t drive a Prius, but you are showing your ass with that comment and your sources. Move to NH if you like it so much. It’s a much better place for libertarians who are so biased against the government that they can’t evaluate evidence appropriately.

And actually, I do plenty of work around roadways design, evaluation, permitting, maintenance, upgrades etc. You don’t have to engineer roads to know how the are funded and constructed. In fact, an engineer knows nothing about funding mechanisms. I do that exact work for a living. Yup. Did you think I would prove it and doxx myself? Lol

You are a walking Dunning Kruger effect.

I hope you get a chance to move to a place where you will be happier. I can’t waste any more time educating you when you don’t want to learn anything. Bye!

There are plenty of other examples of more comparable states in those links. CT and RI both have similar population densities and similar weather yet spend about 1/3 less.

I never assumed it SHOULD be the same nor did I say that, speaking of Dunning Kruger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome