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SCHERERVILLE â Donna Spivak has been a teacher for 37 years, and in a school year guided by the coronavirus pandemic, the longtime educator said she feels invisible.Â
Spivak, who is 58, told The Times she recently secured an appointment to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, which she received after speaking to someone at the health department after explaining she is a teacher, and her husband is an elderly cancer survivor. I waited, I think it was almost a month, and then when I finally got there, they just said, No, we re not doing teachers. So they just turned me away, said Spivak, a fifth grade teacher at Grimmer Middle School in Schererville.
Forging a new and important social contract to bring the resources of our government, labor and management together is critical now when businesses are failing, unemployment is soaring due to the COVID pandemic and our health-care systems are struggling. This would be a very practical way for President Joe Biden to include unions in critical work to rebuild our economy and to get Americans back to work.
Although seen at times as obstructionist, unions have been in fact crucial players in improving our economy during times of economic crisis. During World War II, our production capacity to manufacture airplanes and tanks was slow and inadequate, threatening our security. Walter Reuther, a member of the United Auto Workers Union, developed a plan along with his co-workers to convert idle car plants to factories manufacturing 500 planes a day. In a matter of weeks after proposing this plan to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR agreed to implement it.
Nevada’s Clark County School District presses ahead with deadly school reopenings
Clark County School District (CCSD) the fifth largest in the US, which serves over 325,000 students in the Las Vegas metro region is scheduled to resume in-person learning in the coming weeks. Teachers and support staff are slated to return on February 22 and Pre-K through 3rd grade students are set to return on March 1. The plan includes mandatory COVID-19 screenings for all employees but does not include any requirements or provisions for students to be tested at all, much less on a regular basis.
Clark County school bus [Credit: Clark County website]
The increasingly heated school reopening debate is forcing President Joe Biden to balance two priorities: getting children back into the classroom and preserving the support of powerful labor groups that helped him get elected.