They presented snarky Valentine s Day gifts and signs, asking for him to support safer school reopenings. He should support the teachers more, said Leslie Grace, an art teacher at George Nebinger School in Bella Vista. So he needs to hear our voices and know that we are unified behind this fight. To not open schools until a safe plan is in place.
The CDC released federal guidelines for the first time that spell out how a school district can reopen based on conditions in their area. The plan has something called layered mitigation tactics.
If an area has high transmission, which Philadelphia does, the CDC guidance says schools should:
By Marc A. Thiessen
We’re just a few weeks into Joe Biden’s presidency, and already the broken promises are piling up. Biden made two big pledges in his campaign. The first was that he would unite the country and bring Republicans and Democrats together on Capitol Hill. Already he has broken that promise rejecting an offer from 10 Republican senators to work with him on a filibuster-proof bipartisan covid-19 relief package.
Biden’s second big promise was that he would “listen to scientists and heed their advice – not silence them.” But when his handpicked director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky, said last week that “schools can safely reopen” and “vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for the safe reopening of schools,” the Biden White House slapped her down, with press secretary Jen Psaki insisting that Walensky was speaking in her “personal capacity.”
On the picket line
Ohio auto parts workers move to unionize
Workers at the Borger auto parts plant in Norwalk, Ohio, have experienced sexual harassment, racism and safety problems. Wages and pay increases are “merit-based,” which in practice means they are inconsistent and based on favoritism. Pay is lower than other comparable businesses in this deindustrialized part of the country.
Borger is an international company; workers in Borger’s German plant are unionized. A majority of the 170 workers at the plant signed union cards to join Workers United (part of Service Employees, SEIU) and demanded management recognize their union.
When union representatives collect signed cards from a majority of a bargaining unit (the grouping of workers seeking union representation), they can ask management to voluntarily recognize the union. This is referred to as a “demand for recognition,” or “card check,” and bypasses petitioning the National Labor Relations Board to conduct a