TOPEKA, Kan. – A Kansas state commission is considering a bill similar to collective bargaining reforms approved in Wisconsin in 2011 that limit the topics of negotiations to wages, salaries and hours.

The statewide teachers union, the Kansas National Education Association, is livid about the idea, of course.

KNEA legislative and political advocacy director Mark Desetti used a gun violence analogy to convey his opposition to the bill, the Topeka Capital-Journal reports.

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“They should be encouraging us to work together to do what’s best, that everyone can agree to. Instead, it’s like putting a gun to our head and saying, ‘Here, let’s negotiate this and here’s our terms.’ How is that right?” Desetti said.

Members of the K-12 Student Performance and Efficiency Commission decided to shelve the proposal to give officials with the union and officials with the Kansas Association of School Boards an opportunity to discuss it and come to an agreement on terms, according to the news site.

The KASB wants districts to be able to voluntarily negotiate items outside of pay, which the bill’s current language doesn’t allow. The Commission also reviewed other potential legislation that would encourage districts to consolidate administrative services, and create commissions to study restructuring and spending at its meeting Monday.

Not everyone, however, liked the idea of creating more commissions for further study and argued direct action is needed now.

“These things are not going to change as long as we continue to sit here and try to come up with reasons not to change,” Dave Trabert, president of the Kansas Policy Institute, said, according to the Capital-Journal.

“The system works very well for some kids and it does not for others, and that will not change as long as the adults and the institutions come first and that’s what this is about,” he said.

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Commission chairman Sam Williams seemed to be on the same page.

“If I were a legislator, which I’m not, I would expect this commission to provide me cover to make decisions,” Williams said, adding that while the group has the opportunity do that, there needs to be an expectation of change, the news site reports.

“Things cannot stay the way they are because they’re not working. We heard hours and hours of testimony that it’s not working.”

Wisconsin governor Scott Walker ushered through similar collective bargaining reforms in 2011 amid a massive political backlash from the state’s teachers unions and their sponsored democrats in the state legislature, some of which fled the state to avoid voting on the legislation.

In the end, Wisconsin’s Act 10 saved school districts across the state millions of dollars that were used to weather the recent economic recession without significantly cutting teaching positions or student programs.

Wisconsin’s restrictions removed union influence over issues like teacher evaluation systems, the identity of the district’s insurance carrier, work rules, class size requirements, unused sick day bonuses and numerous other aspects of district finances and operations.

The changes allowed local school officials to regain control over a host of school issues that had become increasingly expensive or burdensome due to overly generous union collective bargaining agreements.