It looks like 'No Big Deal' -- until you do the Math.
PS. Teachers usually know how to do the Math.
Walker reshapes inflation-based raises for teachers
WTMJ-TV and JSOnline.com -- msnbc.msn.com -- 4/22/2012
[...] A spokeswoman for the [Governor Scott] Walker administration says the change was necessary to properly implement the labor legislation signed by the Republican governor last year. Under that law, unions' bargaining is limited to cost-of-living adjustments, and Walker's change would limit that bargaining more than the original rule proposed by his own appointees. Madison labor attorney Katy Lounsbury says the rules effectively neuter teachers unions in their bargaining over salaries. She says she believes the rules violate people's rights to associate.
God GOP forbid, anyone raise a few taxes to improve the quality of our antiquated education system. Or pay a salary worthy of the noble calling ...
This is what the War on Workers looks like ...
It looks like 'No Big Deal' -- until you do the Math ... and compound those lost earnings over the career of a dedicated public servant.
Pretty soon you're talking about real damage to a worker's economic well-being -- and that of their families too.
Wisconsin governor changes rule to reduce inflation-based raises for public school teachers
Associated Press -- April 21, 2012
MADISON, Wis. - Gov. Scott Walker has reshaped a rule to lower inflation-based raises that public unions can negotiate for teachers in public schools and technical colleges.
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For instance, a teacher with a master's degree might make $45,000 a year, while a teacher in the same district with a bachelor's degree might make $35,000. A 3.2 percent cost-of-living raise on $45,000 would be $1,440 -- or more than $300 more than the same raise on $35,000. Under the new rule, the teacher with the master's degree would have his or her raise calculated off the $35,000 instead of his or her actual pay.
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Multiply that "harmless" base-pay "adjustment" over an entire career and pretty soon your talking about a serious change of lifestyle.
This is the GOP's recipe for America -- more Tax Cuts for the Rich, paid for by more Benefit Cuts for working Americans.
Is it any wonder Scott Walker will be packing his CEO bags soon? (Hopefully.)
With worker-wage-siphoning tricks like that -- Who needs Governors promising Jobs, but delivering only broken contractual agreements.
And so the Race to the Bottom continues with American Workers paying its exactly price at every turn.
This is no way to create a growing economy ... by punishing the workers who are teaching our kids. Trying to teach with the GOP's help or not.