Wednesday, March 9, 2016
KANSAS
SENATOR
DEFENDS
BILL AGAINST
TEACHERS
UNION
CRITICISM
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THE GAZETTE, EMPORIA, KANSAS
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A Johnson County lawmaker has defended a proposal to require annual votes
on the status of local teachers
unions, an idea criticized by
Kansas’ main union as a distraction from more important
matters.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the bill would
require yearly votes to be held
on whether teachers want
their local union to continue
representing them.
Republican state Sen. Jeff
Melcher says the goal is to
give each year’s new incoming teachers a voice so that the
unions will better understand
what their members really
want.
“I would expect they think
they may not be as popular as
they want people to believe,”
he said. “This will let them
know whether they are supported or whether they’re
not.”
Most local teachers unions
in Kansas are affiliated with
the Kansas National Education Association and the National Education Association.
Kansas National Education Association spokesman
Marcus Baltzell said the bill
does nothing to address pressing issues such as a recent
Kansas Supreme Court ruling on increasing funding for
certain school districts that
have relatively weak local tax
bases.
“The only thing this does
is, it’s Jeff Melcher’s way of
grinding an ax and causing
chaos in a way that doesn’t
need to happen,” he said.
The Senate’s Commerce
Committee will hold a hearing
on the bill Wednesday morning. If the proposal becomes
law, the Kansas Department
of Labor would hold more
than 300 elections across
the state each year on local
unions. A union would retain
its negotiating status if more
than half of the local teachers
and certain other employees
cast votes on an annual basis
and do so in favor of the union.
The Division of Budget
filed a financial summary estimating the measure would
cost about $340,000 for staff,
rent, supplies and equipment
related to the elections.
LEGALS
(Published in The Emporia Gazette
March 9, 2016)
Notice of Annual Meeting
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March 23, 2016 At 7:00 pm
150 Road 140
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