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Tag: Total Control

Chicago-Style Teacher Strikes in Michigan?

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Tue Sep 11, 2012 at 01:57:27 PM EST
Tags: Unions, Michigan, Total Control, Prop 2, MEA (all tags)

Leaked MEA Memo Brags Prop 2 would Overturn Penalties for Striking Teachers - Parents Misled by Organizers about Deceptive Ballot Proposal's Far-Reaching Effects

From Lansing, we are hearing that Chicago-style teacher strikes could be heading to local school districts across Michigan if union leaders behind the deceptive Proposal 2 successfully hijack Michigan's constitution this November. According to a leaked internal memo from the state's largest teachers union, the Michigan Education Association (MEA), passage of Proposal 2 would overturn the Michigan law that creates penalties for striking teachers, paving the way for Chicago-style teacher strikes in Michigan school districts.

Teachers in Chicago yesterday walked out of their classrooms after rejecting a 16 percent pay increase, outraging parents and kicking nearly 400,000 students out of their schools and onto the streets.

While teacher strikes are technically "illegal" in Michigan, Michigan's Public Employee Relations Act (PERA) establishes the only legal penalty for teachers who walk out on their classrooms; a fine equal to one day's pay for each school day spent on strike.

In 1994 the Michigan legislature enacted Public Act 112 which amended the Public Employee Relations Act (PERA) to prohibit union bosses from removing these penalties for striking teachers during labor negotiations.

According to a leaked internal memo from the MEA (linked above), upon passage of Proposal 2:

"The prohibited bargaining topics created by 1994 PA 112 and included in Section 15(3) of PERA would NO LONGER exist (including)... Any compensation or additional work assignment intended to reimburse an employee for or to allow an employee to recover any monetary penalty imposed under PERA."

"The union bosses behind this deceptive proposal are telling parents it will not legalize teacher strikes, but what they don't tell parents is that it would eliminate the penalties that make the word "illegal" mean anything," said Nick De Leeuw, spokesman for Citizens Protecting Michigan's Constitution. "Our kids deserve teachers in the classroom, not on the picket line, but the MEA's own internal documents admit that is exactly the kind of Chicago-style crisis Proposal 2 could unleash in Michigan."

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