Your Teacher Is F’d The Oregon Education Association gave Kitzhaber more than a million bucks

[L. Coyote]

Your Teacher Is F’d
The Oregon Education Association gave Kitzhaber more than a million bucks, and now he’s giving it pay cuts and pink slips.
http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17246-your_teacher_is_f%E2%80%99d.html

[LWolf]

1. I am fucked.

If I don't get a pink slip this spring, if I get to keep my job, I'm facing a 6% pay cut. IN ADDITION TO THE PAYCUTS I'VE ALREADY TAKEN, 3 IN THE LAST TWO YEARS.

The "extra duties" I've been working to try to make up the difference have been cut, as well. Those sources of income to backfill some of the paycuts have been...cut. Even though they were extra hours at about 1/3 my regular rate of pay, extending my working day to about 12 hours a day, they helped me stay solvent.

Where are all of those teachers going to find jobs, when the unemployment rate is already too high? And how is it going to help the economy when we can't pay our mortgages, even if we keep our jobs, because the continuous pay cuts finally put our income below the threshold of being able to afford those payments?

What, exactly, does this accomplish?

[BlueIris]

2. Sad to read, but I'm not surprised.

Kitzhaber is far from a perfect man, and my feeling that his fake progressive schtick would disappear five minutes into his most recent term is why I voted for Bill Bradbury in the primaries.