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Economy

Philadelphia teachers protest pay cut demands

2013-08-25

[REUTERS] Hundreds of teachers in Philadelphia voiced their outrage on Thursday at proposed pay and benefit cuts as public school officials demanded $133 million in concessions from employees because of a financial crisis.

With the teachers' labor contract due to expire on Aug. 31 and school set to start about a week after that, the district and union leaders are still far apart on terms, according to George Jackson, front man for the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers.

Teachers are being asked to take salary cuts of between 5 and 13 percent next year and to pay more for health coverage.

More than 200 teachers held a march and then rallied outside the school board offices on Thursday to protest the demands.

Posted by:Fred

#6 You an English teacher, I noted the good englitch.

Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-08-25 18:15

#5 As a former Philadelphia Unified School District student, I have to say "dat sux"

Posted by: Rob06 2013-08-25 16:29

#4 Was that 200 in the reactionary bourgeois math or the social justice revolutionary math count?

That was all the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers could afford.

Posted by: Pappy 2013-08-25 12:43

#3 pay more for health coverage.

Hey, wait a minute!! Obamacare said everything would cost less!! Obama didn't lie did he????????

Posted by: AlanC 2013-08-25 08:39

#2 More than 200 teachers...

Was that 200 in the reactionary bourgeois math or the social justice revolutionary math count?

Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-08-25 07:18

#1 Teachers are being asked to take salary cuts of between 5 and 13 percent next year and to pay more for health coverage.

Sound like an NEA and Champ voter remorse problem to me. Snicker, snicker, snicker

Posted by: Besoeker 2013-08-25 02:11

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