Archive for February 22nd, 2010
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Post: “Cash on the barrel”
Comments off · Posted by admin in Labor Contracts, MCEA, Public Schools
The Post’s editorial board wants to know whose interests the Council really serves
In effect, local officeholders are so beholden to the union that they have forfeited their obligation to exercise independent oversight over contract negotiations. One result is that the average salary for a Montgomery County teacher, $76,483, is the highest among suburban school systems in the Washington area…But what confidence can the public have that officeholders in Montgomery are carefully weighing competing interests when most of them are held hostage to the overbearing influence of a single union?
