Walker Savings Bringing Back Teachers

Teacher retirements may have doubled statewide in this year of Wisconsin budget wars, but some school districts are lessening the drain on classroom experience by bringing back teachers who left the classroom at the beginning of the summer.
Peter Hirt, superintendent of the North Lake School District, said his district has hired two teachers who announced their retirement in March.
Though the two are being paid at about the rate they would have been paid had they stayed on, Hirt said, the district is still saving money on their compensation - and would be even if the alternative was to hire replacements right out of college - because the district doesn't have to pay for their health insurance or contribute any more to their retirement fund.
At least three other Milwaukee-area districts - New Berlin, Wauwatosa and Greenfield - hired back retired staff this year at even greater saving, because the teachers are now being paid at lower rates than they were before.
The Associated Press reported last week that about twice as many public school teachers decided to retire in the first half of this year as in each of the past two full years.
Many of their departures apparently came in anticipation of Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill, which restricted collective bargaining by most public employees, including teachers, and required them to make new pension and health insurance contributions. The new law, which led to weeks of protests at the Capitol, took effect in late June.
The hired-back teachers in North Lake are second-grade teacher Karen Niehausen and Spanish teacher Camille Faherty. Hirt said the two came to him in March and volunteered to retire to protect younger teachers from being laid off.
Hirt says at that time, before Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill became law, it looked as if the one-school elementary district would have to lose four of its 37 teachers to balance its budget. He said the district accepted the two retirements and announced the layoffs of two more junior teachers in March.
But after school officials crunched the budget numbers this summer and saw how much they'd save from the provisions in the Walker legislation, they realized they could afford to again fill the four positions that had been trimmed. They called back the two laid-off teachers and then chose the two retired teachers from lists of multiple applicants for the other two jobs. - JSOnline

Funny how this is being made Headline News.  Headlines are talking about the "waves of teacher retirements."  Now it seems that there are several that are now re-applying and coming back to work.  Thanks to the Savings from Gov. Scott Walker's Budget Repair Bill.

The Civility of the Left

Cranking up the anti-Tea Party rhetoric, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa called on workers to "take these son-of-a-bitches out" as he warmed up a crowd Monday in Detroit ahead of President Obama's Labor Day speech.

The rhetoric coming from speakers at the event was already heated before Hoffa took the stage. Hoffa then declared there's a "war on workers" and vowed that organized labor would "remember in November" which lawmakers were opposing the president's agenda.

"We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face -- a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party," he said. "And there's only one way to beat and win that war -- the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight."

Hoffa called on workers to get involved in opposing Tea Party-aligned lawmakers next November.

"President Obama, this is your army, we are ready to march," Hoffa said. "But everybody here's got to vote. If we go back, and keep the eye on the prize, let's take these son-of-a-bitches out." - FOX News

While Obama and the left attacked Palin for targeting lawmakers for removal from office that had nothing to do with the shooting in Arizona, they now apparently condone Hoffa's comments.

The double standard shows a complete lack of leadership from the President and the Democratic party.

President preaches Country over party, just doesn't practice what he preaches.