You must be a coach......

Or a spam bot...

amen brutha!!!!

I've suggested that officials pay raises in Oregon (statewide payscale) should be tied to teacher pay raises....same percent for both. The question arises about what the teacher pay is since each district has a different scale but it shouldn't be hard to come up with an average percentage raise for all teachers in the state. It will probably never happen as they want to be able to cut/freeze our pay at will even when they get a raise just so they can save a few bucks....as long as they get theirs.

We Got A 2% Raise This Year ...
 

Which is exactly how we do it here in the Constitution State. No more negotiations, or contracts signed, in smoke filled rooms.

I can earn as much working a JH game here with 6-minute quarters as guys earn in varsity games in LA.

We're In The Money ...
 

Catholic school eighth grade "varsity" game, single game, with seven minute periods: $54.00
High school subvarsity games (includes middle school): $57.25
High school varsity games: $88.28

I don't have the answer. I have no part in the negotiation process. I play the hand I am dealt. If it reaches the point where it is costing me money to call games, and I no longer enjoy doing it, I will check out the private school association or give it up altogether.

As far as how the four chapters handled it, no I certainly don't agree with it. In the first place it was doomed to fail, if they thought they would get a pay raise signed now, because of the limited support given the walkout, even among the officials. Mainly, this is unacceptable because it fails to live up to an agreement which was signed by both sides. A local principal told me there is actually a signed contract between school and association. He couldn't tell me exactly what it says, because he never actually reads it, just signs it. The piece of paper is not the important part to me. I am a part of a group which has promised to do a job, so I intend to do my part. Expanding our normal area to cover games deserted by others is not quite as easy to justify, but I see the principle as the same, mainly because the schools affected by the limited area have no power to make changes on their own, even if they are inclined to do so.

No one commented on my truck driving analogy.


I don't see the difference in this and our situation. If there is one, perhaps someone could explain. If a trucker dumps a load for one of you, let me know, I'll come get it if necessary, even if that would be considered stabbing the trucker in the back who dumped it there.

I'm sure that you'll never, ever see the difference either, JAR. 100% sure.

And the back stabbing analogy is right on too imo.

So you'd kiss up to the trucker who dumped your stuff and allow only him to go back and pick it up? Seriously?

You don't get it. Your analogy is a horrible one for many obvious reasons.

And one more thing, the school who offered to switch to our association if we covered them during the walkout, (this was called stealing, poaching, and a miserable practice, I believe) was with us before switching to their current association last season. That's right. They stole/poached them from us. Even though the crossover turned out not to happen, I'm now told the switch will now take place anyway. I'm also told that the coaches wanted to switch back this season.

Let's hear them.

Is that the association that's covering the games that are 150 miles from you? The ones that you were going to drive 300 miles round trip to do the other day?

The principals and coaches will always switch back and forth to different associations in order to save a few bucks and maybe get a few breaks (in their minds) in the officiating. And why shouldn't they if they have competing associations willing and eager to stab their fellow officials in the back to gain a few games? Hell, who cares if the games only pay $36; you're getting more of them.

You just don't get it it. The LHSSAA is playing you off against each other and laughing their heads off at you while they're doing so. And until you do get it, you'll be working games for peanuts and kissing azz to do 'em.

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You're rattling without knowing what you're talking about now. (imagine that)
They're going to save a few bucks? The game fees are the same. The mileage is the same. The money is the same.