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In praise of plastic bags
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H. L. Mencken, who was born in 1880, published in 1931 his musings on the progress of technology in his first half century, and in particular which invention he was most grateful for. While conceding that telephones had become indispensable, he also noted that they were "the greatest boon to bores ever invented", and he similarly disposed of the radio, the phonograph, the movies, and the automobile, before settling on the thermostat, to which he had converted during W.W. I & to which he devoted two whole pages of praise.
In a similar spirit, looking back on the past 74 years, I suppose the computer might be a choice; however, it is not really one development, but a congeries of interpenetrating inventions: not only fast arithmetic, but cheap long-distance communication, video displays, satellites, and so on. If I had to choose one well-defined improvement, I think it would be plastic bags, which (IIRC) became cheap & widely available in the 1960s. Before then, if you went shopping, you usually carried off the merchandise in a paper bag without handles, which you had to put your hands under, so that your arms were aching when you got home. If you were packing a suitcase (respectable people didn't use backpacks), there was no convenient way of segregating things of different sizes or uses; now, you can put things in bags that reveal their contents, and pack those. If you wanted to put leftovers in the fridge, there was nothing for it but to put them in something that later had to be washed. If you were going hiking or (worse) boating, there was no good way to pack things so that they wouldn't get wet.
Most wondrous of all, plastic bags may well deserve the credit for the spectacular decline in insect pests during my lifetime. I spent most of my childhood in prosperous suburbs with bourgeois sanitation, but everybody made continual war using flyswatters, flypaper, and Flit guns. In those days, garbage was put out for collection without wrapping, in battered galvanized-iron cans with loose-fitting lids & (soon enough) rusty holes. The results were not as bad as in Mencken's reminiscences of the 1880s, when Baltimore had horses, backyard privies, & open sewers, but the change since then has been almost as spectacular. I still maintain a flyswatter, but occasions for using it are down to one or two a year. So late as 1960, when I lived in Cambridge, MA, I used to have to kill half a dozen mosquitoes before I went to sleep. (I could slap them in the dark with fair efficiency when they got near my ears.) These days, in Malden, a mosquito bite is a rarity. The improvement in public health due to cheap sealing must be considerable.
Sure enough, TANSTAAFL. I hear that there is by now a considerable floating island of plastic bags somewhere in the Pacific, and it's not good for the fishes.
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Thanks for posting this; it was fascinating! Now I'm trying to think back and figure out exactly when in my life it became common to use trash bags. I certainly remember metal trash cans with unbagged trash (and how nasty they were inside), but I can't remember exactly when I stopped encountering them.
Wikipedia dates the patent for manufacturing cheap bags to 1965, and that agrees with my memory that they became common in the mid '60s. I seem to remember that during the time I lived on Long Island (1964-71), the New York City garbage collectors struck, and there were pictures in the papers of big stacks of big bags on the sidewalks, together with comments about how much worse it would have been before plastic bags.


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Create an AutoCAD linetype in two different ways.
Hardik Dhingani outlines two ways to create a linetype in AutoCAD: in a text editor (such as Notepad) or directly in the ACAD.LIN file from the Command prompt.
Method 1: Open your text editor program, type the codes shown below into the text file, and save it. The file name can be anything as long as it is an LIN file type (in this example, it's ATP171.LIN).
In AutoCAD, open the ATP171 line file and type LINETYPE on the Command line. In the Linetype Manager, click on DASHDOTDOT, make it current, and choose OK.
"Now, draw a line of any length, and you will see the linetype you expected!"
Method 2: Here we shall see how to create the same line by working directly in AutoCAD. Let's use the same file name, ATP171, or you can create a file name of your choice. Follow these steps.
1. Type -Linetype on the Command line, making sure to include the hyphen.
All linetypes must begin with a dash.
Enter negative real numbers for spaces. The value defines the length of the space in drawing units.
Enter positive real numbers for dashes. The value defines the length of the dash in drawing units.
Separate each dot, dash, or space value from the next with a comma.
Use a space between a dot and a dash."
Notes from Cadalyst Tip Patrol: Often, the standard linetypes that come with AutoCAD don't suit your needs, but it's relatively easy to create your own custom versions. You can create linetypes in several different ways, but the coding for them is the same no matter where make them. The file ACAD.LIN is the standard linetype file that comes with AutoCAD. (If you are going to edit this file, make a backup copy of the original first.) If you use custom linetypes in a file, and you distribute that file, make sure to send the recipients your custom linetype file also, or the custom line won't display properly for them.
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Kach (, zkratka pro Kahane la-Kneset, , tzn. Kahane do Knesetu) byla izraelská krajně pravicová politická a polovojenská organizace, založená v roce 1971 rabínem Meirem Kahanem.

Historie
Vznikla jako izraelská odnož amerického extremistického hnutí Židovská obranná liga. Ideologie organizace je založena na tzv. kahanismu, což je radikální forma sionismu, která Židy považuje za nadřazený národ a požaduje vyhnání Arabů z celého území biblického Izraele (dosahující i mimo hranice současného státu).

Po zavraždění Meira Kahaneho v roce 1990 se na jeho počest od hlavní strany oddělilo hnutí Kahane Chaj (hebrejsky: כהנא חי, tj. Kahane žije), ale prakticky obě frakce tvořily stále stejnou organizaci.

Volby
Po několika volebních neúspěších se straně Kach ve volbách v roce 1984 podařilo vstoupit do Knesetu, ze všech následujících voleb však byly Kach a Kahane Chaj vyloučeny pro podněcování rasismu a v r. 1994 byly obě strany zakázány.

Trestná činnost
Organizace byla obviněna z několika násilných činů, pokusů o bombové útoky a z navádění k násilí proti arabskému obyvatelstvu. Vedení Kach vyjádřilo podporu pro čin svého člena Barucha Goldsteina, který provedl krvavý masakr v Jeskyni patriarchů ve městě Hebron, když tam 25. února 1994 zastřelil nejméně 29 Palestinců. Kach má také úzké vazby k hnutí Ejal, jehož člen Jigal Amir zavraždil izraelského premiéra Jicchaka Rabina.

Kach a Kahane Chaj jsou v současnosti vládami Izraele, Kanady, USA a Evropskou unií považovány za teroristické organizace.

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HARD TO KILL. EASY TO LOVE. EQUIPPED TO LEAD.
#83. How Much Your Kids Love You – FRIDAY REFLECTIONS
April 29, 2022 April 29, 2022 / The Dad.Work Podcast / By Curt Storring
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Welcome to this episode of Friday Reflections by Dad.Work!
Every Friday I share the best of what we have been doing in the Dad.Work community, to provide perspective, new ideas, and motivation for you to continue on your journey to becoming the best man, partner, and father you can be.
How much do you think your children love you as a father? To our children, the bond we form and maintain with them is EVERYTHING, and while all of this may appear to be a huge responsibility, we must view it as the greatest gift of all!
Let me ask you a question… How often do you hear grown adults yearning for their parents' love and affection?
As much as a child's bond with her father develops quickly, I want to assure you that it is never too late to make amends, form that bond with your child, and provide a safe haven for them.
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Welcome to the Dad Work Podcast. My name is Curt Storring, your host and the founder of Dad Work. This is episode number 83. How much your kids love you, guys, I'm just gonna get into this today. This is a short episode, or perhaps one of the most profound realizations I've ever had in my life. And it still makes me emotional reflecting on it today. And each time I do so. So it's a short episode, like I said, but I hope it's impactful. I encourage you to think on this more, and even journal on it. Here we go.
Okay, guys, I'm gonna read you a little bit of something that I wrote, and I talked a little bit about it, and I'm gonna go back into something else I wrote. And we'll just get into it. Do you understand? Dad? How much your kids love you? We often think about how much we love our children. But how often do you think about how much they love you back? The connection our kids have with us means just about everything to them. This is a great responsibility. But it's also an amazing gift. No matter how much you screw it up. All your kids want is your love and approval. This also means that it's never too late. I hear father shares, which is a process we do in men's group, where grown man still longed to be seen and loved by their dads. It is the most natural and beautiful thing in the world. But we rarely, if ever, let our kids love into our lives. Have you ever opened your heart and truly felt the unconditional love that your children have for you? It's overwhelming. This holds true even when you think you screwed up or let them down. Maybe you did. But that just makes it more important not to withdraw. You mean everything to them? Now guys, I'm gonna go and just talk a little bit about your own father for a moment. Just let me go there for a moment, guys. The importance of a father is monumental. Okay, men's work is filled with ideas about the importance of fathers. Studies always show the impact a father has on his children. And in fact, it's evident even and perhaps, especially if you just look in your life, like think about your own dad, right? Think about how important your relationship to him is positive or negative. And get really honest here, guys, if he was absent, or not a good father, you're almost certainly deeply wounded, or he failed to live up to the high standards of fatherhood. I see this all the time. It's possible to get through, it's possible to heal. But it's very painful. And your father would have inflicted this wound on you because of how important he was to you as a child. And now as a man, if he was a great father, you probably deeply cherish your relationship with him. Now guys, apply that to your own kids, your children will one day feel one of these two things, and they are feeling it right now already in the moment you are the man they will always either look up to or grieve the lack of relationship with. It's so powerful and we can't miss out on it. And go back now and read a little portion of something I wrote about this, and it's just going to help to round round this out. It's gonna bring these two ideas together a little bit. Have you ever truly felt into just how much your children love and need you? As parents, we often think about how much we love our children. It's a pattern of energy that extends from us to them. But there is just as much love coming back to us. Let this sink in. You are almost everything to your children. They love you deeply. Even if you screw up all they want is your love attention and validation. In fact, they need even more when we screw up. Many men I talk to you, myself included, have a tendency to withdraw or beat themselves up when they make a mistake. They think that if they pull away, they won't hurt their children any more than they already have. But guys, this is the opposite of what our kids need. They need us to apologize and repair the rupture. They need us to keep showing up. Open your heart to their love and see what it feels like to accept unconditional love. For many of us, it's the first time we'll have truly accepted this type of love and adoration. And it can burst your heart wide open in a good way. I'm also telling you that it's never too late. The amount of adult men I talked to who still longed for the love and acceptance of their fathers is staggering. It may take doing more inner work to access your love and emotions. It may take dealing with your own wounds and traumas before you can truly accept this as the single greatest connector you have with your child. But man, is it ever worth it. Get out of your own head. Step back from your own patterns and self absorption. Understand how important you are. You are loved. And I'm going to leave it there today guys. This is a short episode. I encourage you to journal on this. Even reading this and going back to this thought process that I've been working on for the last few months is bringing a bit of a tear to my eye. I feel the immensity of this It's beautiful. And I hope it jogs something in you. So encourage you to journal on this to think a little bit more and to just accept your children's love into your lives. We'll see you back here next week for another episode of the Dad Work Podcast
that's it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. It means the world to find out more about everything that we talked about in the episode today, including Show Notes resources and links to subscribe leave a review work with us go to dad.work/pod that's DAD.WORK/POD type that into your browser just like a normal URL Dad.Work/Pod to find everything there you need to become a better man, a better partner and a better father. Thanks again for listening and we'll see you next time.
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Changing Times in Rural America: The Effects on Food Insecurity and Hunger
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Poverty and hunger are increasingly significant issues facing the nation, in large part due to an economic recession that began in 2007 and ended in 2009 (National Bureau of Economic Research), but the consequences of which still remain apparent (Bean 2011). One result of rising hunger rates is the increasing number of public assistance caseloads for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (Bean 2011), however, as Americans experience economic distress they are also looking to community programs for additional and needed services, such as food pantries which offer unprepared food items (Berner et al. 2008; Biggerstaff et al. 2002; Daponte et al. 2004; Molnar et al. 2001; Nnakwe 2008). Yet researchers have relatively little data on the hunger struggles of this extremely vulnerable population, especially in the rural setting and in the West where it has been suggested poverty and hunger rates are higher than in other regions (Farrigan 2010; Nord et al. 2009). Using qualitative interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, the current study tells a story about who the rural food insecure are in Perry County, Washington, and how they survive each month while experiencing significant changes in the rural environment. The study argues that the needs of pantry users vary across locations and between individuals using the same pantry. The study also tells an important story of how rural food insecure diets are affected by retail access changes. From a spatial inequality perspective, access changes have negatively affected rural residents' food security for a variety of reasons that seem unique to the rural setting. The changes taking place in Perry County are important to evaluate because they mirror changes happening across the country in the rural setting. At a time when hunger is hitting our nation at an alarming rate, it is important to have a better understanding of who faces food insecurity and the challenges those individuals and food programs endure combating hunger issues.
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Cork has become the first airport in the Republic of Ireland to roll out the sunflower lanyard scheme to help staff identify passengers with hidden disabilities who may need additional support.
The discreet identification scheme is used in several airports around the globe, including Heathrow, and provides those with hidden disabilities the opportunity to benefit from support throughout Cork airport.
Sunflower lanyards are available at the OCS Group's special assistance desk in the Cork airport terminal and are easily recognisable to staff across multiple aviation hubs.
The scheme is the latest initiative in Cork airport's goal to assist those with invisible disabilities. Last year, it became the first major travel hub in Ireland to adopt new signage for accessible toilets. It also named the Shine Centre for Autism as its 2018 Charity of the Year, which included a commitment from the airport to build on its existing autism initiatives such as the provision of books from the Suzie series by Charlotte Olson, intended to help children with autism cope with new situations. These books are also available at the OCS desk.


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The wine goes well with white meat, chicken, vegetables, and vegetarian dishes.
Red wine with an interesting name "Drink Me", which translated means "Drink me", was created specifically for a pleasant, easy drinking and does not contain a particular complexity, great depth and minerality characteristic of wines of the Douro.
Wine is made from grapes Turiga Nacional, Turiga Frank, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Amarela, Tinta Cao. Thanks to this blend, it features an incredible fruitiness and freshness. Beautiful vineyards in the Douro valley with a total area of 30 hectares were acquired Niport in 1988. Here there are mostly old vines, to create "Drink of" used with the yield of 10-40 year old vines. Company Niepoort completely eliminate the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, which not only degrade the quality of the wines, but also adversely affect the ecology of vineyards. Aging wine is 14 months, carried out in stainless steel tanks (75%) and only 25% of the wine is aged in French oak barrels.
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Sumitomo Electric's group company Sumitomo Electric (Thailand) Ltd. has established a branch in Yangon to conduct marketing activities such as marketing research for infrastructure projects in Myanmar.
Myanmar's economy has been developing rapidly in recent years, and the country is expected to have an increasing need for infrastructure to be constructed, improved and expanded in the future. To meet such needs, Sumitomo Electric (Thailand) Ltd., which has been engaged in sales, marketing research and planning for Sumitomo Electric Group's products in a wide variety of areas such as infocommunications and power cables, has established a branch in Yangon, Myanmar.
The new branch will conduct marketing research, promote sales and provide marketing support for local agents across the country for projects mainly related to infrastructure, such as infocommunications, power cables and transport, thereby contributing to the development of Myanmar through a broad range of technologies developed by the Sumitomo Electric Group.
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Bhaalu case: Flemish Media Regulator rules in favor of broadcasters Medialaan, SBS Belgium, and VRT in their suit against Right Brain Interface
Right Brain Interface NV is a young technology company that has created a remote DVR (digital video recording) storage service called Bhaalu. In essence, this service allows its subscribers to record the television shows, which they can watch according to their TV channels' subscription and store them on servers owned by the unincorporated association of Bhaalu users ("in the cloud"). This way, Bhaalu users can watch TV shows on demand up to 3 months after they have been aired.
The Bhaalu system is also called a Collaborative Video Recorder (or CVR) because the users are basically sharing the cost of certain common components of the CVR hardware, without it being technically possible for them to share content with or transfer the content to other users.
Naturally, Bhaalu's entry on the Belgian market has led to a great deal of opposition by Belgian broadcasters, provoking Medialaan, VRT, and SBS Belgium to sue Right Brain Interface before the Antwerp Commercial Court on grounds of their right to exclusive reproduction and communication enshrined in the Belgian Copyright Act. The broadcasters also filed a complaint with the Flemish Media Regulator on grounds of Right Brain Interface's violation of the Flemish Government Decree of 27 March 2009 (the "Media Decree").
On November 4, 2014 the Antwerp Commercial Court ruled that Right Brain Interface could not lawfully rely upon the "private copy" exception enshrined in the Belgian Copyright Act. Even though Right Brain Interface has since suspended its activities, it did apply for an appeal against this decision. On January 12, 2015 the Flemish Media Regulator also decided in favor of the Belgian broadcasters.
The broadcasters asserted that Right Brain Interface should be considered a "service provider" in the meaning of Article 2, 7° of the Media Decree. As a service provider, Right Brain Interface would be obliged, according to Article 180 of the Media Decree, to:
transmit linear television shows-that are included in the range of television services in the Flemish Community- unabridged, unaltered, and in their entirety, at the actual time these television shows are aired.
seek prior consent of the broadcasters so that these broadcasters may offer its customers an option to have a delayed, shortened, or altered viewing of the linear television shows.
However, Right Brain Interface does not transmit linear television shows in an unabridged, unaltered way and in their entirety at the actual time these television shows are aired. In addition, Right Brain Interface did not obtain the broadcasters' prior consent so that they could offer its customers the said option for delayed, shortened, or altered viewing of linear television shows.
The Media Decree defines "service providers" as any entity providing one or more broadcasting services to the public by means of electronic communication networks, with the exception of broadcasting organizations that only make their own broadcasting services to available to the public. This third category of market players (which fall between a broadcaster and a network operator) was added to the Media Decree to cope with future technical evolutions in the media sector. The Flemish Media Regulator held that Bhaalu was indeed the result of such technical evolutions and needed to be considered a service provider under the Media Decree.
In reaching this decision, the Flemish Media Regulator first considered that it was not required for service providers to provide the broadcasting services to the public via their own network. The Flemish Media Regulator also considered that it was irrelevant whether these services were broadcast on individual request or whichever technique was used to broadcast them (including point-to-point technique or, as in the present case, unicast technique). The fact that the Bhaalu user must indeed have made a recording instruction so that the signal via unicast would be forwarded to him does not, according to the Flemish Media Regulator, imply that Bhaalu did not provide broadcasting services.
Therefore, the Flemish Media Regulator declared that Right Brain Interface has violated Article 180 of the Media Decree by: (i) not transmitting the linear television shows-that are part of their range of television services in the Flemish Community-unabridged, unaltered, and in their entirety, at the exact time these television shows are aired, and (ii) not obtaining prior consent of the broadcasters so that they could offer its customers an option allowing for a delayed, shortened, or altered viewing of linear television shows.
However, given that Right Brain Interface had already ceased its Bhaalu-related activities after the Antwerp Commercial Court rendered its decision on November 4, 2014, the Flemish Media Regulator only issued Right Brain Interface a warning and ordered it to stop committing further violations.
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There are a bunch of people with money out there that think it is their duty to build the world's greatest supercar. Newsflash: it isn't. I'm not saying that's the case with this car – because it was more of a "let's revive a revered and dead company and build what they would be building had they never gone out of business in the first place" sort of thing.
The Invicta car company shut off the lights back in 1950 (for the second time – the original company closed in 1935 before returning in 1946). In 2002, some investors produced a concept of a new sports car called the S1. Deliveries started in 2003 (I think they were 2004 models) and the company built this lone model through about 2011 (they closed down in 2012).
The body is carbon fiber and the most of the components come from other road cars – including the engine, which, in this car, is a 320 horsepower version of Ford's SVT 4.6-liter V-8 (a 5.0 could be had with almost twice the power). Top speed is about 170 mph and the car cost upwards of $150,000 when new.
You might be wondering why I'm featuring this car, and here's my answer: so many of these little car companies pop up with a concept car and then no one ever knows if the thing actually goes into production or not. I was always unsure about this one (I've never seen one – have you?) but now I have proof that Invicta S1s were actually produced (I just don't know how many). But you never see them for sale.
This one should sell for between $93,000-$120,000. Oh, and yes, those are the actual headlights and body-colored wheels, they aren't aftermarket add-ons. You can find out more here and see more from this sale here.


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Applying Skills Developed in the Army to the Study of Forensic Science
Student veteran credits military service for the discipline, leadership, confidence, and integrity that fuels her academic success
If you ask Ashley Hart to explain her success as a student, she immediately points to her military background as a huge factor.
"I learned skills back then that I continue to use today," says the Suffolk student veteran, who spent nearly seven years as a member of the U.S. Army, including a one-year stint in Iraq.
She talks about discipline, leadership, confidence, and integrity – qualities that now define her life as a college student.
"In the military, you're taught to hold yourself to a higher standard," she says. "For me, the transition to Suffolk was easy."
As a human resources specialist, Hart was responsible for handling the logistics of running a military company. She would conduct meetings in front of large groups of fellow soldiers, which provided her with a skill that came in handy once she arrived at Suffolk.
"Public speaking was part of my job," she says. "That really helped me when I got here."
Besides its Boston location, it was the forensic science program that attracted Hart to Suffolk. "I love science and solving problems, so it was the perfect fit for me," says the single mother of a 9-year-old daughter. Hart is attending Suffolk on the post-9/11 G.I. Bill.
Hart, a senior, is majoring in biochemistry with a concentration in forensic science. Her educational experience includes an internship at the Boston Police Department Crime Lab.
"I'm mainly researching sexual assault cases and learning about the inner workings of how to analyze evidence from a crime scene," Hart says. "I'm fortunate because this job connects me to what I want to do."
She first learned about the internship while taking an introduction to forensics course, taught by Donald Hayes, a senior lecturer in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. She later approached him for more details and applied for the job.
"Ashley is a bright young woman who has a sense of maturity and purpose," says Hayes, who also is the Boston Police Crime La's director. "The experience she is getting will give her basic knowledge of different procedures and what goes on in a forensics laboratory. She is developing a good background, and that's one of the traits we look for."
Hart decided to get involved with the Student Veterans Organization at Suffolk a year ago and is now treasurer of the student-run club that helps student veterans reintegrate.
"Joining this club has definitely made my experience at Suffolk a whole lot better," she says. "It has allowed me to connect with other people who have a military past just like me. It's a great support system and I have met some amazing new friends."
Hart still remains friends with some of the people she served with in the military. She reflected on Veterans Day in a contemplative moment.
"I don't see Veterans Day as a day to congratulate myself, but a day to honor the veterans I deployed with and the men and women who lost their lives overseas," she says.


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Majority of Detroit teachers vote yes to ratify a one-year contract
by Eleanore Catolico, Chalkbeat October 7, 2020 February 11, 2022
Detroit Federation of Teachers President Terrence Martin said that the contract includes worker protections essential to support teachers. Photo by Lori Higgins/Chalkbeat Detroit
This story also appeared in Chalkbeat Detroit
Detroit teachers overwhelmingly ratified a one-year contract on Monday that includes pay raises, bonuses, and more working protections.
Chalkbeat obtained a copy of the email sent to union members on Tuesday. Members voted 76.56% in favor of the agreement, while 23.44% rejected it.
"This contract puts us in great position and provides us leverage to do even more next year for our members on a multiyear deal. This agreement contains protections for our members that we haven't had before. These protections are essential to ensure our educators can provide the very best service to students," said Detroit Federation of Teachers president Terrence Martin in a statement.
All current union employees on the step scale will be moved up a step. In addition, some of the district's highest paid teachers, who are at the top of the step scale, will get a 2.74% wage increase and some members could get a $1,500 bonus. The union also secured pay increases for teachers and bonuses for long-term substitutes and retirees returning to the district.
The agreement states that new teachers won't be on the step schedule unless part of Michigan's school reform law enacted in 2010 is repealed or amended. The law was updated in 2019 to include the Detroit school district.
The law states that the district must use job performance as the "primary" factor in determining pay. Step increases are based on years of teaching experience and education.
There has been disagreement among teachers over whether the tentative agreement will hold up under further scrutiny.
Superintendent Nikolai Vitti said that since the state did not issue state testing this year, there are no metrics to use for performance pay.
"The current salary structure allows us to be compliant with state law when/if state testing and district end of year testing resumes for next year," he said.
Martin warned that the law could affect the district's efforts to improve teacher retention. "This district can potentially become a revolving door for teachers," if the law isn't repealed, he said. The district has less than 50 teacher vacancies since the start of the school year. Most of these positions are in special education.
The Detroit school board and the Detroit Financial Review Commission also must approve the agreement. Once final, the contract will immediately go into effect, resolving months of tense bargaining talks. The union, which represents about 4,000 employees, has been working under the three-year contract that expired in June.
When the district prepared to reopen schools this fall, the COVID pandemic intensified teachers' fears over health and safety. A separate deal in late August offered hazard pay to teachers working inside school buildings and ongoing, voluntary COVID testing for students and staff after the union threatened to launch a "safety strike."
In addition to pay bumps for teachers, long-term substitutes and retirees returning to the district are eligible for a $900 bonus, except those with daily teaching assignments. Retirees hired after June 30 will start on step one of the pay scale. The district will also increase the minimum pay of all DFT hourly employees who are not on steps to $15.
As reported earlier, starting salaries for new teachers hired for the 2020-21 school year will increase to $51,071 according to the contract.
Those with advanced degrees will start at a base salary between $58,142 and $58,742, depending on their education level. All current union employees on the pay scale will be moved up a step. The highest paid teachers with a master's degree would now earn about $75,000 a year. Last year, these teachers earned about $73,000.
Since 2017, the district has increased pay for teachers, with some increases as high as $15,000 in three years according to the district's statement.
"This administrative team and school board has delivered on its promise to improve salaries, benefits and working conditions to retain and recruit teachers, even amid a pandemic," said Vitti said in a statement.
Last year, the union won a 4% increase for teachers at the top of the step schedule. The increase last year put their earnings above what they were making in 2009, when the state began appointing a series of emergency managers to oversee the district. During that period of emergency management, teachers' salaries were cut 10%.
Along with pay boosts, the agreement includes a provision that calls for the district's civil rights office to investigate allegations of harassment, retaliation, and discrimination against union employees. Union employees will also be allowed to participate in organizing activities while on school property. The contract also outlines efforts the district and union leaders will make to improve teacher retention.
The full agreement is posted on the union's website.