[RealJustme]

The Michigan Education Association has pressed their members to abandon Michigan’s classrooms in order to lobby against Governor Rick Snyder’s right-to-work reforms.

Classes were cancelled today in several Michigan school districts to accommodate the absence of hundreds of teachers, who were prompted by the union thorugh emails and phone calls to call in “sick” to protest right-to-work legislation at the Michigan Capitol. Thousands of teachers in turned, called in sick shutting down the schools.

Twenty-six thousand students are out of school today as a result.

In any job (but a union job) if you falsely call in sick, you have committed a theft and will be fired, these unions thugs are doing it openly. Not only should those teachers who can't prove they were actually sick be fired, the teacher's union should be sued for both financial costs and mental anguish they've caused not the only the 26,000 children but their parents.

Punishing the children and their parents through false claims of being sick because your union tells you to do it, is about as low as you can go as a teacher.

And some wonder why our children are growing up with no morals or ethics.

Carlos

[DarknLadyJedi]

First off, I am pro-right to work laws. I don't feel people should be forced to join a union to have a job.

However your report is false. While several schools did close and there were some teachers that called in sick, the majority of those closures were due to teachers collectively taking a vacation day in order to attend a rally that directly effected them. This was why those schools were able to close in advance of the morning of.

[RealJustme]

However your report is false. While several schools did close and there were some teachers that called in sick, the majority of those closures were due to teachers collectively taking a vacation day in order to attend a rally that directly effected them. This was why those schools were able to close in advance of the morning of.

Teachers have verified they received notice from their Union to attend the rally even if they had to call in sick. Several hundred teachers then called in sick. Several schools were shut down, leaving numerous parents no option but to lose work to care for their 26,000 children when they should have been in a public school already paid for by their tax money.

I agree some teachers did take a vacation day off, but they did so without regard for the children the children, shame on them. Others out and out lied and called in sick per the union's instructions. Don't you argee teachers should be fired if they called in sick and really weren't sick? Also shouldn't the union be punished for advocating unlawful activities resulting in the damages it's done to all those families? Or are unions above acceptable morals and ethics? I say sue their asses and stop this madness. If they want to hold rallys do so on weekends so their members don't have to comitt crimes to attend.

WDIV News in Detroit reports that so many unionized teachers have called in sick Tuesday after to being advised to do so that the Taylor and Warren Consolidated Schools districts will be forced to shut down the schools. The teachers are heading off to Lansing for rallies to protest the state’s new right-to-work laws.

[DarknLadyJedi]

Oh, I agree they should be held accountable. But I also think that the politicians should consider the fact that many people work M-F jobs and should hold major votes like this on the weekends so that the largest number of people could voice their opinions.

Don't get me wrong, as I said I support right to work, but I also believe that politicians work for the people that elected them and not the other way around.

[RealJustme]

Don't get me wrong, as I said I support right to work, but I also believe that politicians work for the people that elected them and not the other way around.

I agree that politicians work for the people that elected them and in this case the politicians are following through with the people's wants. The majority of the people they represent want the right to work law. Just because someone screams louder doesn't make their vote count any more than someone who votes silently.

Unions are furious and vowing to overturn the legislation via an initiative. However, it is hard to see this drive succeeding. Unions already put a state constitutional amendment on the ballot to prevent the legislature from ever passing a right-to-work bill. Michiganders voted it down by a 15-point margin. That is not surprising: Polling shows that a majority of Michiganders support right-to-work. So do 40 percent of union households.
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/12/17/rig ... -a-choice/