DETROIT – Dozens of Detroit Public Schools are closed today after the district’s teachers union encouraged members to call in sick to protest the district’s budget problems.

Officials with the Detroit Federation of Teachers announced the “sick out” Sunday, a day after a state-appointed district manager announced DPS will run out of operating funds at the end of the school year, and will be unable to continue to pay teachers after June 30 without a state bailout, ABC News reports.

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“There’s a basic agreement in America: When you put in a day’s work, you’ll receive a day’s pay,” DFT Interim President Ivy Bailey said in a statement. “Unfortunately, by refusing to guarantee that we will be paid for our work, DPS is effectively locking our members out of the classrooms.”

The union drama is only the latest in a series of DFT orchestrated sickouts that have repeatedly left the district 46,000 students without teachers, forcing district officials to shut down schools altogether.

District spokeswoman Michelle Zdrodowski told the news site that 94 of the district’s 97 schools are closed today because of the union-led sickout.

DPS Emergency Manager Steven Rhodes, a former bankruptcy judge, announced over the weekend that the district won’t be able to make payroll after June 30, when it’s expected to run out of $48.7 million in emergency state aid.

District officials are currently pinning the district’s future finances on a $715 million plan currently under consideration by the Republican controlled Michigan legislature, and Rhodes thinks the union’s sickouts are complicating efforts to keep the district afloat, Fox 2 reports.

“A districtwide sickout will be counterproductive and detrimental to the efforts of everyone working to help the district,” Rhodes said, according to The Detroit News.

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Rhodes said he will not ask teachers to work without pay this summer if finances collapse.

“I am confident that the Michigan Legislature understands the urgency of this situation and will act in a timely manner to ensure that all operations of the school district continue uninterrupted,” he said.

But Bailey contends that many teachers have their paychecks spread out through the entire year, rather than just during the school year, which means some teachers will not be paid for work they already completed if the legislature fails to act.

“Detroit teachers deserve to be paid fairly for their work like every other working person,” Bailey said. “But Detroit Public Schools has just informed us that it cannot guarantee to pay these dedicated men and women for their work. This isn’t right. It isn’t fair.”

Instead of going to class, DFT teachers will spend their day today outside the district’s central administration officers Downtown to “demand fair treatment from the district,” DFT Executive Vice President Terrence Martin told the News.

“Although educators want nothing more than to be in classrooms helping our students learn and grow, the district has left us no choice,” he said. “While we recognize this puts Detroit’s parents community in a difficult situation, the district’s broken promises and gross negligence leaves us no choice.”

Meanwhile, a more radical faction of DFT members led by ousted DFT President Steve Conn known as By Any Means Necessary is pushing for a more radical resolution to the district’s chronic budget problems. DAMN wants the state to reinstall the locally elected school board that drove the district to the brink of bankruptcy in the first place.

“Ivy Baily is trying to bamboozle the teachers into accepting (Gov. Rick) Snyder’s plan,” BAMN member and East English Village Prep Academy teacher Nicole Conway said. “They’re trying to use teachers’ real and worthy anger in exchange for supporting the Snyder plan. We’re saying give us back our elected school board and restore democracy to Detroit Public Schools. That’s the only way we’ll resolve this.”