Milwaukee school district is in a financial crisis and is facing hundreds of layoffs. Sound serious? Should be, but the Milwaukee teachers' union is fighting to get tax-payer funded Viagra. There's been a 2-year legal battle over this issue, the union saying if a necessary treatment and the school district saying we need to save money. The union, at the same time they are demanding this benefit, is also protesting 682 layoff notices issued to teachers for the coming school year. Reinstating the drug benefit (yea, that's right, it used to be covered before funds got tight) would cost $786,000 - the cost of approximately a dozen first-year teachers.
So would they rather have the drug or jobs or pension benefits? Gotta choose, can't have it all. Let me clarify, the TAXPAYER, many of whom are out of work, cannot continue to pay for everything.
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