Teachers unions continue negotiations even after 80% of teachers get vaccinated

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

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arm

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Tuesday
that 80% of all teachers, school staff and childcare workers in the U.S.
have received at least the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

Roughly 8 million pre-K through 12th grade workers had been vaccinated by
the end of March, following President Biden’s March 2 directive to make
all school staff and childcare workers eligible to receive the vaccine.

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"Our push to ensure that teachers, school staff and childcare workers were
vaccinated during March has paid off and paved the way for safer in-person
learning," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday. "CDC will build on
the success of this program and work with our partners to continue
expanding our vaccination efforts, as we work to ensure confidence in
COVID-19 vaccines."

But despite the rapidly increasing number of shots administered to school
officials, teachers unions have remained reluctant to have their members
return to the classroom for in-person teaching.

Legal battles have popped up around the nation from San Francisco to
Chicago, largely surrounding the issue of getting teachers back in the
classroom for in-person instruction.

In late March, an agreement in Oakland, Calif., to reopen classrooms early
for high-needs students, including homeless, foster and special needs
kids, was rescinded after not enough teachers agreed to return to the
classroom, despite cash incentives and vaccine prioritization.

OAKLAND TEACHERS REFUSE TO RETURN TO SCHOOL, DESPITE GETTING COVID VACCINE
PRIORITY

Oakland teachers will be required to start in-person instruction on April
14, just three weeks after the district and teachers unions agreed to get
instructors back in the classroom for select students.

But father of a southern California middle school student, Scott Davison,
said that from what he has seen, it is not the teachers who are keeping
schools from reopening, but rather union officials.

"I do think it is important to distinguish the attitude of the majority –
the vast majority of teachers do not share the opinion of their union,"
Davison, an attorney who helped launch a lawsuit under the Parent
Association against six California school districts and the state, told
Fox News. "I talk to plenty of teachers all the time, who eminently
disagree with the take of their teachers union."

"I think it is important to distinguish that these are union leaders that
have political talking points and political agendas that are trying to
demand benefits for them, that really go against what their calling is –
which is to help students," Davison added.

Davison is not alone in suspecting teachers unions have been driving the
narrative and directing school teachers on how to act during this
unprecedented time.

Last month, reports surfaced alleging Chicago teachers union officials
directed teachers not to disclose whether or not they had received the
vaccine.

Teachers in Chicago returned to the classroom after a tense public battle,
but parents have suspected unions across the nation are using the pandemic
as a bargaining chip for pay increases.

"It boils down to these negotiations with teachers unions and the
district," Jonathon Zachreson said told Fox News, noting that after
combining each aid package passed by Congress, California has received $33
billion for school funding.

"This really has to do with poor leadership from Gavin Newsom. He
effectively shut down schools at the behest of teachers unions during the
summer," Zachreson explained.

"These teachers unions are wasting time negotiating more funds, using our
kids as bargaining chips," he added.

While some schools have reopened in southern California following the suit
brought forward by Davison, parents in northern California remain
frustrated by the lack of state intervention.

San Francisco caught the nation’s attention after the city forced the
district to take action by suing the Board of Education and the San
Francisco Unified School District in a last-ditch effort to get schools
reopened for in-person teaching.

While schools reopen in the Bay Area for hybrid learning, they are still
under negotiations with the teachers unions.

Zachreson, who lives outside of Sacramento, launched one of the largest
petitions in the country, calling on Newsom to mandate that all pre-K
through 12 schools offer full-time in-person teaching – a measure that
14,000 parents in California have already signed.

Zachreson said that union officials are using "safety" as an excuse to
keep schools operating under hybrid schedules to maintain their bargaining
chip.

"What I believe is happening, they are going to continue to push with
these models, these ridiculous hybrid models under the guise of safety, to
negotiate more pay and benefits for their members," he said Tuesday.

The CDC has said it is not necessary that every teacher and student be
vaccinated before returning to the classroom, and noted that the adverse
effects on children conducting virtual learning, outstrip the threat of
transmitting the virus during in-school learning.

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In February, the CDC director encouraged schools to start reopening by
highlighting the significant risks children face in continuing their
isolation, like a lack of education and food insecurity.

President Biden has said the nearly every American age 18 and up, can
expect to be vaccinated by this summer. But parents remain concerned this
will not change teacher unions attitudes in getting kids back in the
classroom full time.



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