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Why hasn't this changed through union action or lawsuits about needing to work unpaid hours? Surely, an employee should be able to take an employer to court ab
by asvitkine 4y ago
Why hasn't this changed through union action or lawsuits about needing to work unpaid hours?
Surely, an employee should be able to take an employer to court about the employer requiring work that's unpaid. In the courtroom, presumably there can be evidence presented about how these unpaid hours are required by examining experiences of other teachers, etc.
- danaris 4y agoTeachers are, to the best of my knowledge, universally paid salary, not hourly. The other reasons this hasn't changed are a) This is just "how things are". It's more or less considered the "normal" way of doing education. b) Changing it would require increasing education budgets by a fairly significant amount, and since those are all local, and based on local property taxes, they are much more likely to have a bunch of entitled rich people coming in to say "I shouldn't have to pay any taxes to support those damn kids" and voting for budget cuts. (Because the people who aren't rich don't have the time and energy to be coming in to these meetings on a regular basis.)
- pclmulqdq 4y agoMy guess is that this hasn't changed due to union action or lawsuits because (1) teachers are salaried, and tend to be over the limit where overtime pay is legally required; and (2) union organizers don't think they can get any more money without giving something else up.
- bobthepanda 4y agoAlso, in the states where this problem is the worst, there’s usually “right to work” legislation and other rules that do their best to defang collective bargaining power.