Allegheny Institute for Public Policy
February 4, 2010

In spite of the poor economy and high unemployment rate, teachers in the Penn Hills school district decided to inflict even more pain onto Pennsylvania families and school students.  Teachers went on strike seeking “a 15 percent increase in wages for each of the five years of the contract and for the teachers’ 1.2 percent contribution to health care to be decreased to as little as 0.4%.”

Read the full article here.

UPDATE: Penn Hills teachers offered to return to work 1 day earlier than required by law.  After leveraging the future of their students for their own selfish ambitions, inflicting pain onto Pennsylvania families, and demanding unreasonable pay increases (which would result in even higher property taxes for home owners in the school district), Penn Hills teachers should be punished with fines and loss of pay and benefits.  The behavior of the teachers’ union is criminal.