Blood Boil.
I can't tell you how insulted I am by the possibility of yet another strike.
In this economic climate, with the highest unemployment rate since the great depression, the threat is an affront to all of us.
"...the contract proposal would give teachers a 10.4 per cent salary increase over four years, and include money to hire more teachers.
School boards have already accepted the offer, but the union says it's outraged by Ms. Wynne's threats and deadlines."
Yes, the union can afford to be "outraged".
It's not them who are going to have to walk the picket lines. It's the Teachers who will lose pay while they're walking the line, even if they voted to accept the agreement.
The union is also not going to have to be in the classroom to face the parents who already feel that Teachers have it 'cushy', and are angrier with every threat to keep their children out of the classroom.
The Union forcing their members into a strike in this economic climate will only serve to further damage an already tarnished relationship between the general public and Teachers.
"The dispute between the union and the school boards appears to center more on who controls how teachers do their jobs rather than how much teachers are paid.
Mr. Clegg said earlier that school boards are pressing teachers to double the amount of time they spend supervising children outside of class time and giving principals a say in how some preparation time is used - demands not made of their high school counterparts.
The union asked for raises of between 3 to 4 per cent in the first three years, and no increase in the fourth year so the money could be used to hire 1,500 more teachers, as well as other non-monetary items.
The school boards' association argued that even without a salary increase in the fourth year, the union's request would cost it an extra $260-million in funds it doesn't have."
The bullshit line about it "not being about the money", is also an insult.
Everyone knows that time is money...and to date, I don't know of anyone who is willing to give you that time for free.
It just makes me sick.
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