Mental health check-in

jbj said:
Rangers. I barely even bother watching the world cup now as far as international football goes.

Big union meeting in work tomorrow about the amount of violence we're seeing and staff refusing to work in certain parts of the school. I left said union to join a different one a while back but whatever they decide to do moving forward is going to affect me and probably not in a good way.
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They have 2 different unions at the same school? If so that's very different to the USA.

My wife was a teacher for many years and a member and union rep for her school. She's retired from teaching now (public schools have been under attack by the Republican state legislature for over two decades) but her post-retirement job is the office manager for the same local teachers' union. She's hoping to be able to stick that out, for the health insurance coverage, until she can take Medicare at 65.
 
Brian Krashpad said:
They have 2 different unions at the same school? If so that's very different to the USA.

My wife was a teacher for many years and a member and union rep for her school. She's retired from teaching now (public schools have been under attack by the Republican state legislature for over two decades) but her post-retirement job is the office manager for the same local teachers' union. She's hoping to be able to stick that out, for the health insurance coverage, until she can take Medicare at 65.
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Yeah there's a bunch of national unions I could join.

I've only ever been in the biggest one for a short while.
 
Interesting. Here, one local union can be the sole bargaining unit for a given school district. That union in turn may be a part of a bigger national union, but the local is the one that bargains for and protects the rights of the district's teachers. For example, in my county the bargaining unit is the ACEA (Alachua County Ed. Ass'n), which in turn is part of, and supported by, the NEA (Nat'l Ed. Ass'n).
 
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