From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Wisconsin’s largest teachers union has a problem.
A union problem.
This week, National Support Organization, which bills itself as the world’s largest union of union staffers, posted an online notice discouraging its members from seeking work with the Wisconsin Education Association Council.
“Don’t apply for WEAC vacancies!” screams the headline.
The reason for the boycott?
Chuck Agerstrand, president of the National Support Organization, is accusing WEAC officials of “breaching staff contracts and destroying any working relationship with its employees.”
“WEAC management is taking a page out of Gov. (Scott) Walker’s playbook and making up new employment rules not in the (United Staff Union) contract,” Agerstrand said on the labor group’s website. “They should be looking to the 42 employees they laid off to fill vacancies before they go outside the state.”
In other words, the national labor organization says WEAC isn’t following the agreed-upon rules for filling a vacancy after a round of staff cutbacks.
That’s the allegation.
Not surprisingly, WEAC officials aren’t talking.
Spokeswoman Christina Brey said Monday that she would try to offer a response but didn’t before the end of the day.
Officials with the Wisconsin United Staff Union – the local affiliate of the National Support Organization and the United Staff Union that represents WEAC employees – could not be reached for comment.
Others were quicker to react.
Republicans said they found it rich with irony that one of the chief critics of Walker’s collective bargaining bill apparently feels hamstrung by its own employee contracts.
“Ah, that’s funny,” said state Rep. Robin Vos, a Rochester Republican who is co-chairman of the Joint Finance Committee. “Perhaps it’s a case of ‘Do as I say, not as I do.’ ”
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