A number of school teachers have been attending the daylong budget hearing and testifying against it. Most teachers are protesting the size and number of education funding cuts while also permanently repealing the statewide property tax (bringing the tax back at its prior rate would bring in $250 million a year). But Mesa teacher Joe Thomas testified he believes there’s some anti-union politics going on as well, with new rules such as waiving the annual early deadline for notifying teachers if they are going to be fired.
“You can go after the union if you want, but you’re being sloppy about it,” Thomas said. “You’re going to be hitting a lot of people who aren’t in the union. … The result is you are going to be driving more people to join the union.”

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