Teachers Union President Defends Minnesota School District That Will Lay Off White Teachers First

by Reagan Reese

 

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten defended a contract between Minneapolis Public Schools and the union which will fire white teachers over minority teachers, according to a Monday tweet.

The March contract between Minneapolis Public Schools and the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) includes a deal that fires teachers who are not a part of underrepresented populations first, instead of basing termination on seniority. Weingarten tweeted an article by Associated Press with a quote from Greta Callahan, the president of the teachers chapter of Minneapolis Federation of Teachers.

“This,” Weingarten tweeted, followed by a quote from Callahan.

“The same people who want to take down teachers unions and blame seniority are now defending it for white people. This is all made up by the right wing now,” Callahan said.

Callahan said that the new contract does not threaten any job because there are vacancies in the school district, according to the AP. She also added that the contract will help account for the minority teachers who have quit in the past few years.

The contract that ended a 14-day union strike keeps minority teachers “exempted from district-wide layoff[s] outside seniority order.” The new policy is intended to reverse “past discrimination” due to “disproportionate hiring.”

Weingarten, AFT, MFT and Minneapolis Public Schools did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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Reagan Reese is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Randi Weingarten” by AFGE. CC BY 2.0. Background Photo “Teacher Helping a Student” by Max Fischer.

 

 


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4 Thoughts to “Teachers Union President Defends Minnesota School District That Will Lay Off White Teachers First”

  1. IgnorantLeft

    Woke leftist teachers are now under the very consequences they have been pushing on the rest of us for generations. Frankenstein’s monster is out of control. I hope the union will provide crying towels to the effected members. Wokeism is fun when you are enforcing it on others, but it’s a different story when you have to live by what you preach.

  2. MostAreMarxists

    At first I was outraged by the headline. But after considering it, I am glad the very leftist teachers will now suffer under the woke racism that they so earnestly push on the rest of us. Poetic justice.

  3. Aloysius

    The title, and premise of this article is so wrong. Ask Randi Weingarten if she is White. You might be shocked by her answer.

  4. nicky wicks

    union defends racism.

    but, its ‘ok racism’

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