Happening Now: US Supreme Court Case Involves California Teachers

11Jan
by Alma V. Marquez

The Supreme Court is hearing a very important case today called Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. A California teacher Rebecca Friedrichs sued the California Teachers Association, the teacher’s union, which is a very powerful political player in California. Her lawsuit would keep public sector unions from collecting “fair share” fees from non-members, which if passed could reduce union membership drastically and drain union coffers. She has said she disagrees with the political motives of her union even when it comes to collective bargaining. “Increasingly I saw that many of the things the union bargained for actually made my job as a teacher harder,” Friedrichs told reporters Thursday. “Because of tenure laws, it is almost impossible to fire incompetent, and sometimes even abusive, teachers. And because of seniority-based layoff policies —last-in, first-out—which the union has negotiated, newer teachers are the first to go regardless of how good they are.”

The case has big implications for not just California but for the country. Basically, it would change the way that public sector unions would be able to raise money which they use for political involvement. Its a complicated issue as many people believe its an attack on public unions and others believe that this has only happened because teachers unions have been unreasonable in their bargaining which results in protecting teachers who should not be in the classroom including pedophiles like the Miramonte teachers who were sexually abusing students in South Los Angeles.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/supreme-court-public-sector-unions-fees-217572#ixzz3wxhxbpbP

 

Está sucediendo ahora: Caso de la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos Implica Maestros de California.

La Corte Suprema tiene un caso muy importante hoy llamado, Friedrichs en contra de la  Asociación de Maestros de California (CTA). Una maestra de California, Rebecca Friedrichs demandó a la Asociación de Maestros de California, el sindicato de maestros, que es un factor político muy poderoso en California. Su demanda mantendría los sindicatos del sector público de la percepción de las tasas “parte justa” de los no miembros, que de ser aprobada podría reducir drásticamente la afiliación sindical y arcas sindicales. Ella ha dicho que no está de acuerdo con los motivos políticos de su unión, incluso cuando se trata de la negociación colectiva. “Cada vez me doy cuenta de que muchas de las cosas que yo esperaba del  sindicato realmente hizo que mi trabajo como profesor sea más duro”, Friedrichs le dijo al periodista el jueves. “Debido a las leyes de tenencia, es casi imposible despedir incompetentes y algunas veces también maestros que abusan.Y porque basado en la ley de antigüedad y las pólizas de descanso “ultimo en entrar primero en salir” el sindicato ha negociado a los maestros nuevos, estos son los primeros en irse, independientemente de que tan buenos sean.

El caso tiene grandes implicaciones  no sólo para California, si no para todo el país. Básicamente, sería cambiar la forma en que los sindicatos del sector público serían capaces de recaudar dinero que utilizan para la participación política. Es un tema complicado ya que muchas personas creen que es un ataque a los sindicatos públicos y otros creen que esto sólo ha ocurrido porque los sindicatos de maestros han sido irracionales en su negociación que da lugar a los maestros que protegen a quienes no deberían estar en un salón de clases, incluyendo los pedófilos como los maestros Miramonte que abusaron sexualmente de los estudiantes en el sur de Los Ángeles.

Leer mas: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/supreme-court-public-sector-unions-fees-217572#ixzz3wxhxbpbP

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Alma V. Marquez is the founder of LaComadre.org and is the founder and CEO of Del Sol Group, a communications and public affairs firm focusing on Strategy, Outreach and Leadership in Education, Voter and Civic Engagement. She specializes in parent education, politics and community organizing. She is a proud product of California public schools. She is a graduate of Huntington Park High School in Southeast LA. She also completed her all of credit recovery classes at Maxine Waters Occupational Center in Watts in order to graduate from high school. She attended East LA College and transferred to Occidental College where she earned a Bachelor's degree in English and Comparative Literary Students and Politics. She earned a Master of Arts Degree in Urban Planning at UCLA. Her daughter is a junior in a charter school, chartered by LAUSD. She decided to start the LA Comadre blog because she wanted to create a platform for Latinas and education.

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