[quote=“bthedog”]The teachers have literally walked right in the hand of the government with this strike.
The government will legislate them back before Christy’s trade mission (unless a deal is reached soon through mediation).
The government will have saved on millions of unpaid wages…teachers will be getting a contract the government has been offering and kids will go back to school, missing 1 of the 2 least important school months of the year (ie: big deal, it will all be forgotten and non impactful by the end of June 2015 anyways).
The only losers in this whole thing are the teachers, who have/will have lost a lot and will never have it recovered. Parents and students are also the loser as we will be in the same situation in a year or 2 when the teachers strike again.[/quote]
Let me get this straight.
The government will legislate them back unless a deal is reached (which would negate the rest of your post).
The government will have saved millions except that the savings have supposedly gone into some fanciful daycare scheme that pays money to some people who don’t need it and ignores some who do. And any money that was saved in June, money that was earmarked for education will likely go somewhere other than education.
Missing a month of school (well at least September) isn’t a problem because it won’t matter in June. Sounds like a plan. Let’s get rid of September and June (I assume that those are the least important months) and while we are at it get rid of December (nothing but holidays and Christmas concerts) and maybe toss out March and its two weeks of break and we can cut the whole budget by 40%.
And teachers are the only losers except of course parents and kids who get to go through this again and the school system that continues to be underfunded.
And don’t forget all the small businesses that already have lost and will continue to lose out as teachers cut back because of their missed wages and continue to cut back on less essential items (dinners out, the latest techie toy, new clothes when the old ones are still good enough etc) as they try to recoup those losses once they are back at work. There will be ripple effects.
And that isn’t taking into consideration the consequences of the court case if the government loses its appeal. How much is owing the school system by the government not putting the language back in when the judge told them to do so?
I certainly do hope this gets settled fairly this week. I would like to see as part of the settlement, the government dropping the court case and actually addressing past wrongs by putting money into the system for the future that should have been there in the past. It is too late for those that missed out. But it is not too late for those coming up and it would go a long way to alleviate much of the animosity that exists today.
That might be better than trying to crush a union.