{"id":21131,"date":"2013-12-03T20:50:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T01:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21131"},"modified":"2013-12-03T20:50:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T01:50:50","slug":"an-unbelievable-labor-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21131","title":{"rendered":"An Unbelievable Labor Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Mike Antonucci at Hot Air<\/a> posted a few excerpts from the current contract<\/a> covering National Education Association<\/a> employees.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

About 500 people work at NEA national headquarters in Washington, DC. A handful of unions represent them, the largest being the National Education Association Staff Organization (NEASO). NEA and NEASO negotiated a 136-page collective bargaining<\/a> agreement in June 2012, and it runs through the end of May 2015. I have posted the full document on EIA\u2019s Declassified page<\/a>, but to save you the energy of mining it yourself, here are a few provisions I thought were worthy of highlighting:<\/strong><\/p>\n

…NEA must assume financial liability for an employee who is prosecuted or sued \u201cbecause of any act taken by him\/her in the course of his\/her employment.\u201d Under these circumstances, unless the employee is guilty of \u201cgross negligence<\/a> or gross irresponsibility,\u201d he or she \u201cshall be paid at his\/her regular hourly rate for all time spent in jail.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

…NEA is required to provide \u201can appropriately furnished lounge\u201d for employees at union headquarters. The contract specifically requires NEA to \u201cmake an ice machine available to employees in the building.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are many other provisions, including reserved parking spaces, valet services when traveling, and other things that most of us would never expect to see in an employment contract<\/a>. Most of us would love to be covered by an employment contract that covers the items this contract does, but most of us realize that if a company wants to stay in business (and thus provide us with a job), they would probably not be able to afford a contract similar to the one that covers the NEA employees. The article unintentionally points out how big the gap has become between working in the private sector and working for an agency related to the government.<\/p>\n

\"Enhanced<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Mike Antonucci at Hot Air posted a few excerpts from the current contract covering National Education Association employees. The article reports: About 500 people work at NEA national headquarters in Washington, DC. A handful of unions represent them, the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3957,501,6698,1294,1873,6697,285,615],"class_list":["post-21131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-collective-bargaining","tag-contract","tag-employment-contract","tag-energy-information-administration","tag-national-education-association","tag-nea","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21132,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21131\/revisions\/21132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}