Oklahoma Teachers Ready to Strike En Masse – for ALL State Employees

Filed in National by on March 29, 2018

Teachers are leading the way in the fight against the low tax paradise shithole Oklahoma has become in the hands of a GOP majority.

Time is running out for Oklahoma lawmakers. They have until April 2 to reach a spending deal or teachers will strike en masse.

Oklahoma’s teachers are rebelling against years of deep cuts to education that have left 20 percent of public schools on a four-day-week schedule and average teacher salaries ranked 49th in the country. Last year, about a quarter of the state’s public school teachers left the state or quit teaching altogether.

Those who remain have come up with a list of demands. Teachers want raises for all state employees for the next three years, plus more spending on health care and pension plans. They also want lawmakers to restore millions of dollars in school funding that have been cut in the past decade. To meet the educators’ demands, state legislators need to come up with $3.3 billion over three years to pay for it.

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  1. RE Vanella says:

    When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run
    There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun
    Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one
    For the Union makes us strong

    Solidarity forever, solidarity forever
    Solidarity forever
    For the Union makes us strong!

  2. bamboozer says:

    This is what happens when you run the famed “Experiment” that devastated Kansas and is doing the same service for Oklahoma. Everything is sacrificed for tax cuts that have never ever delivered on the promises, the only result is an impoverished state that can’t even educate it’s children.

  3. jason330 says:

    It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
    Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
    Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;
    But the union makes us strong.

  4. Tom Kline says:

    So….Delaware public schools are generally shit holes because of to high of income Taxes? LOL

    This is what happens when you run the famed “Experiment” that devastated Kansas and is doing the same service for Oklahoma. Everything is sacrificed for tax cuts that have never ever delivered on the promises, the only result is an impoverished state that can’t even educate it’s children.

  5. spktruth says:

    https://folkways.si.edu/almanac-singers/talking-union-2/american-folk-struggle-protest/music/track/smithsonian

    My father was a union organizer vs. United States Steel…just what we need today, only jazzier.

  6. Jason330 says:

    Kline seems emotionally invested in the fantasy that tax cuts work. So many fantasies out there for him to fall in love with, and he picks that one.

  7. puck says:

    Klinebot: “So….Delaware public schools are generally shit holes because of to high of income Taxes? LOL”

    Actually Delaware schools are shitholes because of LOW taxes. Plus white flight policies.

  8. RE Vanella says:

    I missed the monkey dance last night. God Damn-it!