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the layoffs the board made it clear the layoffs were a direct reaction to the unknowns in governor walker s budget. everybody knew big cuts were coming. acting on advise of counsel to lay off everyone to meet some contract deadlines. i believe they ll do their best to call as many back as possible, but until they get the governor s budget numbers and understand the depth of the cuts, they re not going to make a real projection. so effective at the end of the year, those folks will be laid off, but i expect the district to bring probably all but perhaps 20 of those people back. that s still an awfully big cut for our district. so 20 teachers might be laid off ultimately, but a lot of you are getting notices anyway. tell me about the practical consequence of that. for the teachers and for the students. well, for the students it s caused a lot of uncertainty. they follow the news, and we talk about these issues. i teach an american government

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110301:23:07:00

they read the polls. the republicans and the democrats in wisconsin are reading the polls. when you see polls like that, what are the practical effects it could have in wisconsin? i don t think governor walker is going to back down. he s in a position where he can t, but i think some of those republican senators have to think long and hard about voting for the union busting part of this budget. look, one thing that is clear, and there are three things wrong with the budget that governor walker delivered. there s a lot more than three, but three major things. number one, it was political because he exempted the the unions who supported him from any of the so-called reforms. it shouldn t be that way. secondly and perhaps most importantly there s no shared pain. look, there isn t a state in the union including my state of pennsylvania that doesn t have to take some benefit reforms, have to make employees

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110301:23:08:00

contribute more for some of their benefits. that s an essential. but people should understand that the contribution to the benefits that the the governor is asking amount to an 8% pay cut. now, that might be acceptable except for the fact there s no shared pain in this budget. businesses are seeing their taxes cut, cut and not held level but cut by $67 million. that should be acceptable to any fair-minded person. thirdly, this is union busting. governor walker has told us we have to do this because the local governments and the school districts, they need the power to get rid of collective bargaining. if that were the case, then why are these so-called reforms included? reforms saying that any union member doesn t have to pay union dues, reforms saying that there has been an election every year to keep a union certified in a secret ballot election. governor walker is they ve lost even the patina this is about financing.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110301:23:39:15

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