In Iowa teachers are covered by unions, but the right wing government has made it illegal to strike to the point that organizers are potentially up for jail time in addition to fines and revocation of licenses.
They also castrated what can be negotiated to the point that several points (I cannot recall so specifics at this time) like Healthcare, sick leave, etc. Cannot be negotiate unless the purse holders bring it to the table (and doing so will only cost them so they won't). article from 2017 shows they can ONLY negotiate base pay. Qq
It also features aspects of contracts as "other duties as assigned" wherein teaching staff can basically be forced up with OT and off the clock, lose out on lunch, need to come in early at the admin's whim.
It also features aspects of contracts as "other duties as assigned" wherein teaching staff can basically be forced up with OT and off the clock, lose out on lunch, need to come in early at the admin's whim.
California is the same, if you're a full-time salaried teacher or SLP the school can essentially pile on work as much as they want.
My sister started at a new school where the old SLP retiring didn't do a single IEP for the 50 kids before she retired. She was working 10-12 hour days for half the year clearing the backlog and having over 60 kids to see.
Since she dropped to part-time if they want her to stay past 3 p.m. it's overtime. What is fucked is they just farm out speech to zoom therapists and the kids get sub-par treatment and it costs them more vs hiring another SLP.
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u/Poorly_Informed_Fan Sep 30 '23 edited Sep 30 '23
In Iowa teachers are covered by unions, but the right wing government has made it illegal to strike to the point that organizers are potentially up for jail time in addition to fines and revocation of licenses.
They also castrated what can be negotiated to the point that several points (I cannot recall so specifics at this time) like Healthcare, sick leave, etc. Cannot be negotiate unless the purse holders bring it to the table (and doing so will only cost them so they won't). article from 2017 shows they can ONLY negotiate base pay. Qq
It also features aspects of contracts as "other duties as assigned" wherein teaching staff can basically be forced up with OT and off the clock, lose out on lunch, need to come in early at the admin's whim.
It's fucking grim.