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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
So what you're basically saying, as I interpret it, is that as public sector workers, they should simply accept this offering half as much for a volunteer position, because they're public sector workers and if they were in the private sector blah blah blah. In the private sector, if your employees had a volunteer committee they sat on, and one day you decided they would make half as much to sit on that volunteer committee, you would notice many fewer employees sitting on that committee. And if your response to that is you'll fire them for refusing to make half as much to undertake a volunteer task, you'll likely lose all your good employees ASAP, as they would view such a move as very petty and probably wouldn't want to work for a company like that.
Now if you wanna force people to sit on that committee, or force teachers to mark then that's obviously quite different. But as long as these are volunteer positions, you cannot complain about them refusing to do it for less. The whole "I do blah blah blah above and beyond my job" is not relevant, they aren't going above their job. They are undertaking a task unrelated to their job responsibilities that their employer, the school board, dictates. They're essentially contractors for the purposes of marking the papers. If they don't want to do it for a certain price, they won't. Free market at work.
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Some whiny losers are complaining about not wanting to do it. But with 70% of positions filled, about 650 teachers have decided - a month early, no less - that it is fair remuneration. Publice/private is irrelevant to this portion of the argument. There is, in fact, no problem here. It's just the union and some dummies flapping their gums about a problem that doesn't exist. There will be enough teachers to mark the exams because it's a sweet deal. An extra $100 to $200 per day on top of an already professional-level salary. Some great pocket money just in time for two months off during the warmest weather our country sees.