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Consider the Minnesota Teachers Union: > Minneapolis Public Schools defends policy to prioritize retaining educators of color when determining layoffs > Effec
by silenced_trope 3y ago
Consider the Minnesota Teachers Union:
> Minneapolis Public Schools defends policy to prioritize retaining educators of color when determining layoffs
> Effective in the spring of 2023, the contract provision states that teachers who are members of "populations underrepresented among licensed teachers in the district" may be exempt from district-wide layoffs outside of seniority order, deviating from the traditional "last-in, first-out" system.
> The stipulation is a part of a recent collective bargaining agreement between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and MPS, which concluded a weekslong teachers' strike in March.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/minneapolis-public-schools-defends-policy-prioritize-retaining-educators/story?id=88491641 https://abcnews.go.com/US/minneapolis-public-schools-defends...
I can't wait til I'm targeted as a software engineer for being of the "wrong" group!
- polyphony123 3y agoYou're looking at this backwards. It's a matter of protecting the vulnerable. But sure, let's pretend you're the one being disadvantaged by society.
- silenced_trope 3y agoIt's not about pretending. It's about a simple question and answer of whether the union has my back. As a prospective member that would be important to me? If the point of a union is to protect me and my interest as a worker how does it do that by saying "you may be a higher performer but you're not the right <skin-color|religion|gender|sexual-orientation|etc>"?