Oklahoma Teachers Extorting the Legislature
Demand $10,000.00 Raise or a Walk Out Despite Contracts.
The greed is amazing in the latest effort to blackmail and extort the legislature by the Teachers Unions. However this time the general public has had enough as evidenced by this one Facebook thread that is calling the threat of a walk out greedy and doomed to fail.
By the time this is newsletter is published the Facebook thread has been around about twenty hours and they are up to around 20,000 signers on the walk out petition at Change.org . How many are out of state teachers or supporters is unknown but you can count on that number being the majority other than Oklahoma liberal teachers.
We have done the numbers many times on our newsletters. Teachers work less than half the hours (1080 per year) than the average worker and about 40% of the hours that the average salaried professional works. They are failing miserably at educating the kids and their greed has turned off the vast majority of Oklahoma voters. The Boren sales tax plan failed by a huge margain for this very reason. Once you calculate the hours worked versus the amount of money in salary, benefits, and retirement set aside each teacher is costing the state around $50.00 per hour, IF they are drawing the starting salary and not being paid more than the base pay which most are not other than first year teachers with zero experience.
If you have the time visit that Sooner Politics thread and give your opinion on the walkout. There are some teachers fighting back and willing to honor their contracts. If raises are needed there are classes of state workers that haven't had a raise in a decade. And it is the local school board that sets teacher pay levels, not the legislature, people can vote to raise their property taxes any time they wish but the rural schools want to rape the large population districts and steal money from those population centers by forcing the state to increase their pay instead of going to their local school board to lobby for a raise.
