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18,000 Las Vegas Teachers Prepare to Illegaly Walkout (paydayreport.com)
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In Las Vegas-area Clark County, over 18,000 teachers are preparing to strike. The teachers are upset that money set aside by the state to give teachers significant raises isn’t being used for that purpose.

Since teachers are not allowed to strike in Nevada, formal dates have yet to be set for a strike. However, teachers say they are prepared to begin engaging in walkouts unless something is done.

Teachers say they are refusing to work overtime until the situation is resolved. They are now asking that Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo intervene to resolve the dispute.

“It is reflective of a statewide problem right now. We have a crisis of vacancies, and it is not being addressed. The governor and the legislature passed money to address that, and it is not happening,” Clark County Education Association President John Vellardita told KTNV. “So we are asking for that intervention.”

For more, check out KTNV : https://www.ktnv.com/news/education/why-is-governor-lombardo-expected-to-step-in-on-clark-county-teacher-salary-negotiations-we-find-out

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[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't understand how it would fit in anyone's head that making a strike illegal would ever be a good idea.

[–] silvershrimp0@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

An "illegal" strike basically just means it's not protected. In other words, they can fire you for striking.

[–] Lodespawn@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder who they plan on replacing the teachers with if they fire them given part of the reason the teachers are striking is a lack of teaching staff to fill available positions ..

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The right wants this because it leads to more for-profit education

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They'll just put an ad on Facebook marketplace.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

If you're going broke while working then getting fired for striking is kinda moot. Hopefully they get what they are asking for.

Also, it super pisses me off that most people see striking employees, teachers and nurses in particular, as greedy or lazy. Raise your own fucking kids and treat your own illnesses if it is so easy.

[–] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, from the capitalists perspective it worked for the railroad strike

[–] huginn@feddit.it 11 points 1 year ago

For now.

The whole labor relations board exists because strikes got brutal and bloody in the past.

If all strikes are illegal then violent strikes are on the horizon if history is any measure.

So it worked for them this time (they still had to make some tiny concessions, nowhere near enough).

[–] huginn@feddit.it 9 points 1 year ago

The whole reason strikes are protected is to keep relations comparatively peaceful.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t understand how it’s constitutional to make it illegal.

[–] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Because they own us and they own our governments.

[–] MrTHXcertified@lemmy.sdf.org 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Treat teachers like shit then prevent them from striking.

#JustAmericanThings

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Strike that. Reverse it.

Prevent teachers from striking so that you can treat them like shit.

[–] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Illegal strikes are the best kind of strikes

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Weird how they have a hard time filling positions. My school district had over 100 applicants for every job opening. Of course the lowest wage starts out at $59k for a BA and $72K for a masters.

Vegas and here have similar costs of living.

The Vegas county is proposing paying $52K to starting BA (up from 49k) and 65K for a masters degree (up from $49K!!!).

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

All the important strikes are illegal, that's how you can tell they're important.

[–] cazsiel@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I wish they would. Better yet I wish everyone who has let the situation get this bad would be removed from their posts and barred from public service. They have failed time and time again and this is just their latest failure

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Illegal? What, are we practicing literal slavery now?

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a wildcat strike is incoming....