It never was a fair fight and make no mistake it was a fight. Sometimes when you are personally closely involved in a situation it is hard to see things as they truly are. One thing there is no doubt in my mind is that this push to outsourcing has long been in the minds of the North Branch School Administration and Board of Education and they are utterly ruthless in their desire to purge the school of all non teaching or administrative staff.
Yesterday the AFSCME Union offered English cost savings of in excess of $440,000 and were flat-out refused by English and Bruff. This basically amounted to a 32 hour working week, Healthcare limited to employee only for transportation and custodial staff, 9 month a year only working.
The response by Bruff and English was to add to that a further $2 per hour paycut and also to pay 20% towards their healthcare. The elimination of paid holidays and several changes in work practices which include the removal of seniority rights.
If that is not clear that the message from Bruff and English have absolutely no intention of being fair-minded I don’t know what is. This is not negotiation, this is dictatorship. I know there are several people out there who applaud the loss of these staff as it is inconsequential but in all seriousness how can anyone live on such wage proposed by Bruff and English.
They should be ashamed of themselves, but here is the reality they absolutely don’t care one little bit, they have made no sacrifices, Bruff has increased her salary. This is why this community needs to start treating the school for what it is, a business and the people who run it are failing badly.
North Branch Outsourcing 
Wasn’t Wendy Spivy relieved of her position because of morals? Well isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black. How can they sleep at night knowing they have caused such devastation? And no, this cannot be blamed on Lansing. This was caused because of mismanagement.