Solidarity757 🐦🗣️ Ask #NewportNews City Council to support collective bargaining for city employees! Wear #Red4Ed!
🗓️ Dec. 9, 7 PM, Midtown Community Center.
🚨 Tonight 🚨 Stand up for collective bargaining at the Newport News School Board meeting. Wear red to show your support!
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Please join the NNEA in #Red4Ed in support of contract negotiations / collective bargaining rights for NNPS teachers and staff AND for city employees at the upcoming Newport News School Board meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 18, and at the next Newport News City Council meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 9.
Next NN School Board meeting: Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 6:30 pm at the NNPS Administration Building at 12465 Warwick Blvd., 23606
Next NN City Council meeting: Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 7 pm at Midtown Community Center at 570 McLawhorne Drive, 23601 (note the updated location)
We need to keep up steady #Red4Ed pressure at each meeting until the School Board and City Council vote in favor of collective bargaining / contract negotiations. Citizens can sign up to speak for up to 3 minutes during the public comments portion of the meeting.
**Please note that we are taking a break from holding NNEA signs prior to the School Board meeting until a vote on collective bargaining is scheduled. Until then, we will be attending both School Board and City Council meetings in #Red4Ed to advocate for collective bargaining.**
If you can’t join the meeting but want to show support for collective bargaining, please email the School Board and City Council to let them know that you support contract negotiations / collective bargaining rights for NNPS employees and for city workers.
Ned Yeung'As the Alberta government legislated a swift end to October’s provincial teachers’ strike, it promised to address concerns about classrooms crowded with students who have increasingly diverse needs.
Among the commitments now inscribed in its Back to School Act is a requirement to pay for 3,000 more teaching positions during the next three school years.
But what wasn't clear is that the 2025-26 provincial budget had already allocated funding for exactly this purpose.
The budget — passed months before teachers walked off the job on Oct. 6 — had allocated $750 million for hiring 3,000 more teachers by 2028, says the education ministry.
“It’s one more in a series of deceptions and betrayals of students and of the interests of public education by a government that has proven themselves utterly indifferent to the well-being of students and the conditions in schools,” said Peter MacKay, a Grade 7 and 8 teacher in Grande Prairie, Alta.'
#abpoli #cdnpoli #education #strike #union #Solidarity #Red4Ed
Alberta's Premier says, "I hear the warning that wotkers are threatenig broader job action due to my plans, but I'm going to ram through unconstitutional legislation regardless, and I expect that the public (including the 30,000+ showing up at the legislature grounds to protest me) understand that I don't want this to escalate into the broader job action which I have forced on them."
She then goes on to gaslight the teachers by saying, "this is all their fault for not coming to the table where I have told them I will not negotiate with them but that they must accept what I give them without discussing the point they are striking for, because anything but blind acceptance to my terms is not negotiating."
The union has stated that they are ready to end the strike as soon as terms can be negotiated. There's the truth, then there's Danielle Smith.
We require class size controls in Alberta just like every other province in Alberta, PERIOD!
I will also note that job action is not taken lightly by any union. The tables are stacked against workers amd the repercussions of taking action can be very high. A strike is a last ditch resort. It is ONLY taken as desperate measure, and is ONLY taken when it is backed by PRECEDENT set by the industry elsewhere. A union's members would not take the drastic measure of striking, to demand more than their peers elsewhere already have.
That is what the teachers in Alberta are fighting for, to bring education funding of the public system to align with THE REST OF THE COUNTRY, as our critical underfunding has brought it to the lowest in the country.
Remember that whenever the government calls teachers "unreasonable". She means thay it is "unreasonable" for us to maibtain the nayional standard. She means it is "unreasonable" for us to put policiies in place o protect our children's educational future AT A CANADIAN STANDARD.
The only greedy party here is the one who as funneled our public education fund dollars, collected by all residents (at 25% of municipal taxes in Edmonton, higher in other areas), inton privatized education wth admissions criteria, which many UCP members stand to gain from, as stakeholders in that industry.
#abpoli #cdnpoli #education #strike #Solidarity #union #unionstrong #Red4Ed
RossSA rocking #PublicEducation gathering happening at the Leg! I happened across the parade of people walking on my bike ride on this amazing sunny warm afternoon.
Dr. Young-Leslie {use alt-text, humans} ElbowsUp! 🇨🇦🚲
Chad 
This is where we're at so far today...
Don't forget to wear #Red4Ed, and show your support for our teachers as they go into the most important bargaining session!
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#abpoli #cdnpoli #union #Solidarity #education #unionstrong #Red4EdAB
Bargaining talks back underway with Alberta teachers' strike
During this strike I would wear #Red4Ed every day if I could. But I don't own that much red, so I'm still sticking with Fridays and Bargaining Days like before. Which is today... and Tuesday! Don't forget, this Tuesday after Thanksgiving is going to be a big day! Show your support and stand strong with your teachers so we can end this strike with a favorable contract that provides learning guarantees for all our children!
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