Teachers in other states are striking, but Texas teachers can't

[Sanguine]

Teachers in states across the nation are going on strike to protest funding cuts for public education. But a Texas law is quashing talk of teachers here joining the walkouts.

The statute, enacted in 1993, says any employees who “strike or engage in an organized work stoppage against the state or a political subdivision of the state” will lose all their “civil service rights, reemployment rights, and any other rights, benefits, and privileges the employee enjoys as a result of public employment or former public employment.”

While supportive of the movements happening in other states, several Texas teachers associations are encouraging their members to refrain from leaving their classrooms and going on strike. Doing so, advocates say, could result in having their teaching certificates and Teacher Retirement System benefits permanently revoked....

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/education/teachers-in-other-states-are-striking-but-texas-teachers-can/article_c4f6528d-28d6-5b66-9604-403a9ca3dc26.html?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=Newsletter%20Master%20List&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines

Good. 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

A strike has no place in the public domain.

You strike, you lose your job and your benefits.