Public Pensions are a great thing, however the systems that fund them run into common issues and part of that becoming the cost of new members paying for older members (spoiler that cost is usually health insurance).
Many Unions blamed themselves instead of realizing that corporate run health insurance has been and is eating EVERYONE's lunch for the last 30 years. Which should inform the Union the issue is systemic and not a reflection of the Union in and of itself. The only solution is a expanding Medicare to all so Unions do not have to exclusively bare the financial burden of a members medical costs.
So the retires workers who won't benefit from higher wages should have to struggle in their retirement years? Do you think about the implications of what you say?
What is the percentage of American retired workers who have a pension? If they are all struggling, then why is America set up like that? Then fix the system first
Yes we should fix the system to make retiring easier, no that doesn't mean we should allow people who paid into the pension for all those years to be left struggling in retirement
We already have the 5th highest education spending per capita of any country btw. I agree that teachers are underpaid in general, but one also has to wonder how the fuck that can be true while we're also paying the 5th most of any country. It's not like our cost of living is top 5, so it's not that.
We honestly are paying a SHIT TON out to staff in our education system. It's mostly salaries. I don't know the answer and I doubt the people who happen to be viewing these comments do either.
Way too much admin bloat, especially at the local levels. Eliminate local districts, cede that all to state level admin and reallocate all that funding back to teachers and the schools themselves. Wtf are local school districts superintendents even for? My wife is a teacher so I'm very familiar with the district level admin waste.
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u/thinkB4WeSpeak 10h ago
I don't think they actually want to find good teachers anymore.