Community | April 19, 2011 | 3 comments

Michigan Emergency Manager Robert Bobb Issues Layoff Notice to All Detroit Public School Teachers

source: http://blogs.forbes.com/erikkain/2011/04/19/michigan-emergency-manager-robert-bobb-issues-la...

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We’ve discussed Rick Snyder’s “Emergency Financial Manager” bill in this space previously. Now it’s time to take a look at what happens when a law like this is put into practice. In Detroit, a city that has faced decline now for several decades, Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb has issued a layoff notice to all 5,466 public school teachers.

Bobb has said he will take advantage of the new Financial Martial Law known as Public Act 4 to “unilaterally modify” the district’s collective bargaining agreement with the Federation of Teachers. According to Reuters:

Under a law known as Public Act 4, passed by the Michigan legislature and signed by the state’s new Republican governor in March, emergency managers like Bobb have sweeping powers. They can tear up existing union contracts, and even fire some elected officials, if they believe it will help solve a financial emergency.

"I fully intend to use the authority that was granted under Public Act 4," Bobb said in the statement.

Under Public Act 4 Emergency Managers have sweeping, almost dictatorial power to modify contracts, fire officials, and disregard public input.

So who is Robert Bobb?.....

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3 comments // Michigan Emergency Manager Robert Bobb Issues Layoff Notice to All Detroit Public School Teachers

  • chew_chew
    • +1
      chew_chew  

    • And they're doing it - stealing freedoms which are (at least, have been) America - to put up a golf course (in this instance). Killing one-person-one-vote, to put up a golf course. Stealing people's right to local elected officials. How is that *not* grand larceny? of the worst kind. How is that *not* treason?

      This crap has got to stop. It is unconstitutional, un-American, and immoral. It is disgusting.

      You may be right, timetide.

    • 1 year ago
  • timetide
    • +3
      timetide  

    • anyone else have this sneaking suspicion that we're in endgame? I've had that buzzing around the back of my brain since August and I think its true.

    • 1 year ago
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