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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pandora" data-source="post: 132420" data-attributes="member: 1040">Mare dont  you think it would be wrong to give a 7% or more pay raise to Oregon teachers right now while our state is doing so bad.  The news said today that 1 in 6 Oregonians are on food stamps.Portland teachers stuck their noses up at a 7% raise and wanted 8% or they would strike.  In a back room deal they came to an agreement but refuse to let the tax payers (who will be stuck paying the new contract) know anything about it till its ratified. You dont see anything wrong with that?Springfield FireFighters signed their new contract yesterday and took no cost of living raise, not because they did not deserve it but because they know the state & city are not able to give it right now.Teachers should not be demanding more at a time when everyone is cutting back.</blockquote>