And it has all been about the passage of the Senate Bill 5 and what it represents if it does pass.
The Senate Bill 5 for police and firefighters will preclude binding arbitration in the event of broken negotiations and if agreements can not be reached.
And it could also affect teachers as well. For teachers this means school boards will be precluded through negotiations from agreeing to matters such as class size to teacher credentials. And even though teachers with seniority always had a secure position in teaching, it doesn't matter anymore because when it comes to determining who is kept or who is let go seniority won't count anymore. But what some people don't think is because they aren't in a union they shouldn't have to worry about this bill, but what many officials are saying, is even though some workers are part of a non union work place they should still be concerned about their future.
And because of all theses new possible changes people are really starting to get very upset. Which has caused protest by many firefighters, police officers, and teachers almost every single day for the past week, to get the Senate not to past this bill.
How This Relates To Class:
This topic relates to class because we have talked the different steps it takes to pass a bill. And one of those steps, is it takes 51 votes of the Senate to pass a bill to the president.(The bill also needs 50%+1 votes of the House of Representatives.) And once the bill has recieved its minimal amount of votes, it then goes to the president for it to be signed. And from there the president can either veto the bill or sign it. But if the president doesn't sign the bill in a certain amount of days the bill automatically becomes a law. And all of this is what's going to happen in the next couple of days to weeks, when it comes to decisions being made about the Senate Bill 5 and what's going to happen with it.
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