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Hayward Teachers Show How to Treat Scabs!
On the 2nd day of an indefinite teachers' strike, Hayward teachers remind us all how scabstitutes should be treated. The scabs should consider themselves let off easy and take it as a lesson to never cross a picket line again.
Striking Teachers Accused Of Picket Line Violence
POSTED: 3:20 pm PDT April 6, 2007
HAYWARD -- Tensions on the picket line boiled over into violence in Hayward Friday morning, with a striking teacher assaulting a substitute at an elementary school, according to the Hayward schools chief.
About 10 picketing teachers surrounded a substitute's car as he drove into the parking lot of Palma Ceia Elementary School this morning. The teacher was verbally abused and shoved hard by a picketing teacher, Hayward Unified School District Superintendent Dale Vigil said.
Today is the second day of the HUSD teachers' strike. The Hayward Education Association, which represents 1,300 educators, is demanding a 16 percent salary increase over two years.
Union spokesman Mike Myslinski said he didn't know the details of this morning's incident at Palma Ceia but said he had received reports of substitutes "not behaving cordially" toward striking teachers.
"Emotions are high, it's a strike," Myslinski said. "This district has chosen to bring on the chaos that a strike causes rather than pay teachers a reasonable salary."
The news that Vigil has a vacation trip planned for next week angered union members Friday.
Vigil said he hasn't decided whether he will go on his planned trip and declined to reveal where he was going.
The two sides have yet to set a date to get back to the bargaining table. Next week is the district's spring break. Vigil said he's not part of the bargaining team and that a vacation would not impede any plans that might be made to get back to negotiations.
Meanwhile, few Hayward students are coming to school.
Exact attendance figures weren't available yet this morning, but Vigil said the numbers are even lower than yesterday, when around 90 percent of high school students in the district stayed away.
"Normally, attendance is down on Good Friday," he said.
Teachers have vowed to continue their strike indefinitely if an agreement isn't reached during spring break.
from KTVU.com
POSTED: 3:20 pm PDT April 6, 2007
HAYWARD -- Tensions on the picket line boiled over into violence in Hayward Friday morning, with a striking teacher assaulting a substitute at an elementary school, according to the Hayward schools chief.
About 10 picketing teachers surrounded a substitute's car as he drove into the parking lot of Palma Ceia Elementary School this morning. The teacher was verbally abused and shoved hard by a picketing teacher, Hayward Unified School District Superintendent Dale Vigil said.
Today is the second day of the HUSD teachers' strike. The Hayward Education Association, which represents 1,300 educators, is demanding a 16 percent salary increase over two years.
Union spokesman Mike Myslinski said he didn't know the details of this morning's incident at Palma Ceia but said he had received reports of substitutes "not behaving cordially" toward striking teachers.
"Emotions are high, it's a strike," Myslinski said. "This district has chosen to bring on the chaos that a strike causes rather than pay teachers a reasonable salary."
The news that Vigil has a vacation trip planned for next week angered union members Friday.
Vigil said he hasn't decided whether he will go on his planned trip and declined to reveal where he was going.
The two sides have yet to set a date to get back to the bargaining table. Next week is the district's spring break. Vigil said he's not part of the bargaining team and that a vacation would not impede any plans that might be made to get back to negotiations.
Meanwhile, few Hayward students are coming to school.
Exact attendance figures weren't available yet this morning, but Vigil said the numbers are even lower than yesterday, when around 90 percent of high school students in the district stayed away.
"Normally, attendance is down on Good Friday," he said.
Teachers have vowed to continue their strike indefinitely if an agreement isn't reached during spring break.
from KTVU.com
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