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Offline FBplmmr

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Women demoted for lack of language skills
« on: August 29, 2006, 07:17:16 PM »
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Offline Trikky

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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2006, 07:24:45 PM »
Thats ****ed up on so many levels.
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Offline lukster

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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2006, 08:46:11 PM »
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Offline lasersailor184

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« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2006, 08:50:07 PM »
Wait, that's kind of like that one episode of southpark...


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« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2006, 08:52:25 PM »
LOL fired not by the town....but due to a union greivance....so the union insisted they be chucked.
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Re: Women demoted for lack of language skills
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2006, 08:53:48 PM »
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This really doesn't make any sense. I think it was either edited beyond sense or there is more than what was placed in the article.

It seems they have 2 bilingual dispatchers. Fine. Then the school district creates 2 ADDITIONAL positions and 2 non bilingual people take them. Then the bilingual dispatchers are let go and demoted because two english only speakers took the other jobs???????? This does not compute.
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« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2006, 09:08:37 PM »
Where does it say they fired the two original bilingual dispatchers?  

It looks to me like the district needed 2 more dispatchers, but already had the bilingual part covered by the first two.  So they didn't need bilingual ones, and hired accordingly.  Then the union *****ed because "bilingual dispatcher" is a union job, but "dispatcher" is not - the district bypassed the existing contract to hire two new non-union dispatchers.  When called on it, someone (unknown whether it was the district or the union) wouldn't let the "dispatcher" position join the existing union... so the district canned them.  Sounds like both sides are guilty of being idiots.  

My department's union deals with this tit-for-tat crap constantly.
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« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2006, 09:19:00 PM »
bilingual dispatchers? you mean to talk to school bus drivers who can't speak english?

don't know about that state but in florida you need a class B CDL with passenger and air brake endorsments to drive a school bus and the test is in english.
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Re: Re: Women demoted for lack of language skills
« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2006, 10:24:52 PM »
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This really doesn't make any sense. I think it was either edited beyond sense or there is more than what was placed in the article.

It seems they have 2 bilingual dispatchers. Fine. Then the school district creates 2 ADDITIONAL positions and 2 non bilingual people take them. Then the bilingual dispatchers are let go and demoted because two english only speakers took the other jobs???????? This does not compute.


The article isn't clear but I got the impression that two english speaking only women were promoted to dispatcher. A bilingual worker complained and they were then demoted.

Farmers Branch Texas has the right idea. We need an official national language and the government need only provide for one.
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« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2006, 02:10:23 AM »
Spanish is easier than Engrish:aok
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« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2006, 07:08:26 AM »
Only thing unions care about are themselves and getting your money. After they take your money. They have nothing to do with you until the dues are due again, then all of a sudden their all over you.
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