It's intruding on the local collective bargaining process by enforcing a base salary that wasn't arrived at locally.

The issue is going to be what is the impact on the salary schedule? Is the rest of the scale going to have to be adjusted correspondingly?

Strikes are part of the collective bargaining process in normal times, and they certainly end up as a part of this process,

This bill will set a new minimum, and the minimum becomes the zero step on the salary schedule.

We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.