School reopens Monday and there were 95,000 cases of kids getting covid just last week. The neoliberal ghouls are pretending everything is fine and kids can be 0 feet from eachother and making testing less accessible.

Meanwhile I have very elderly coworkers who will absolutely die if they get COVID and an electrical system at my janky ass school that is too shitty to run air purifiers without blowing a fuse.

My kids will get sick, my colleauges will get sick and I will get sick and infect my partner all because we apparently needed to have a fucking rager for the 4th of July for the economy to not shit out its lungs.

Fuck Amerika

  • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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    3 years ago

    easier said than done but your union should consider work stoppages. This is literally an issue of health and safety and you aren't getting paid enough to deal with this shit. The libs would probably support you even.

      • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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        3 years ago

        oh right I forgot we live in a "democracy". My state had some pretty big teacher strikes a few years ago I'm sorry the state has blocked that off with coercion. tough times.

        Though for what's it worth, if you all did actually get fired/arrested for striking, you would have all the nation's libs on your side. Think about how bad that would look on the TV, "police drag away teachers demanding that we respect the science." It would be a national media event and could maybe inspire other labor action. I do not fault you or your union for not wanting to take that risk but there are not many other options available to us anymore other than labor action.

        • Lerios [hy/hym]
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          3 years ago

          you would have all the nation’s libs on your side

          "but the good guys are in charge now, things are fixed, the teachers are being alarmist and selfish, covid is over, i need my kids at school to go to work" Sorry comrade but I think you might be overestimating libs, and especially their takes on collective bargaining and any protest that actually inconveniences power

          • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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            3 years ago

            i have very little faith in liberals (maybe that's too much) but the ones I meet all seem to really love teachers. Not like they do much to help them but they at least pay them lip service. If it's a GOP state I think you'd have a chance even if the libs are back to brunch, tell them to think of the children or whatever lib shit makes them sympathetic.

    • Cheesewizzard [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Teachers I know in my state describe local teachers unions as essentially collaborating with local and state government –– so they're pointless if not directly harmful to the workers.