The Head of Leon County\u2019s Classroom Teachers\u2019 Association says he\u2019s disappointed by a local school board member\u2019s support of a bill he calls anti-union. Laurie Cox was applauded during Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 signing of the bill. She says it will help to keep unions more accountable to the people they serve.<\/p>\n
The new law raises the union membership requirement for public employee unions, including teachers’ unions. Now, at least 50% of teachers in a district must be members to keep the union certified. Scott Mazur says Cox\u2019s support of the bill feels like another jab at the district\u2019s educators.<\/p>\n
“As Board Member Cox has actually said a couple of times, (teachers should) have more of an attitude of gratitude. And I think even at one point, when she was talking about when the salaries weren’t that great, that we just ‘sucked it up.’ I think that was mentioned in the October State Board of Education meeting.”<\/p>\n
Another education bill the governor signed last week would give teachers bonus pay directly from the state, thus bypassing the union<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Head of Leon County\u2019s Classroom Teachers\u2019 Association says he\u2019s disappointed by a local school board member\u2019s support…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-259837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}