Teachers Face Mandatory Pay Cuts
January 7th, 2009 by flanewsThe state’s budget problems could soon fall on the backs of teachers.
Lawmakers passed a provision through a committee yesterday that would require schools to cut salaries in order to balance budgets in districts whose reserves fall below 2 percent. The Florida Education Association is outraged at the news.
“It makes a joke of the entire collective bargaining law that’s in our constitution. It makes a joke of the negotiation teachers have every year with school district to come up with pay and working conditions. It kind of makes a joke of all of it,” said FEA Spokesman Mark Pudlow.
While the provision made it through a House committee, the issue isn’t on the Senate’s agenda.
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