Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Revved Up in Rochester
Not the talks between the Rochester Teachers Association and the school district, but between the union and some angry ministers. The Democrat and Chronicle reports that union boss Adam Urbanski and other labor leaders met with the city's Clergy Review Board over concerns that black school employees are poorly treated and the district's lop-sided staffing vs. enrollment situation (85% white teachers, 85% black students.)
This snippet sums it up:
The Clergy Review Board is seeking to redress the concerns of at least 30 current and former school district employees who say they've been wrongfully passed over for career advancement, wrongfully terminated or disciplined under questionable circumstances.
"It is not safe to assume that if there are disparities, that automatically they are attributable to the unions, because we do a very good job in representing our members," Urbanski said.
"I know what is on paper and what actually happens in a union in terms of how it plays out with reality ... that there are systems within unions that fail," said the Rev. Clifford Florence of the Clergy Review Board.
"What we're encouraging is to use the experiences that we know are fixed and those that are broken to try and really address the numbers that we know ... we are not satisfied with."
This snippet sums it up:
The Clergy Review Board is seeking to redress the concerns of at least 30 current and former school district employees who say they've been wrongfully passed over for career advancement, wrongfully terminated or disciplined under questionable circumstances.
"It is not safe to assume that if there are disparities, that automatically they are attributable to the unions, because we do a very good job in representing our members," Urbanski said.
"I know what is on paper and what actually happens in a union in terms of how it plays out with reality ... that there are systems within unions that fail," said the Rev. Clifford Florence of the Clergy Review Board.
"What we're encouraging is to use the experiences that we know are fixed and those that are broken to try and really address the numbers that we know ... we are not satisfied with."
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