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Retric on March 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: New York Times tech workers vote to certify union

Yet, both police and teachers do get fired.

Some of this just comes down to both being local government jobs run by a multitude of independent systems some of which are going to be far below average. There are ~13,506 school districts in the US, so the bottom 5% consists of 675 different systems with a huge range of issues.

The other issue is it can be hard to get replacements.

jonhendry18 on March 7, 2022 [–]

Police do get fired, but the city is often forced to rehire them, because of the unions and the arrangements they've had put into law.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/...

A cop can be fired for sexually assaulting a teenager in his squad car, and end up getting rehired by the same department.

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