Let me get this straight

I've never been impressed with the idea of banning teachers from being able to strike. But the new proposals are to ban teacher strikes, lock outs by the school boards and ban work to rule campaigns. Ban work to rule campaigns?! What the hell? How can you do that when the teacher is essentially doing what they were hired to do and nothing else. You are going to ban that so that they have to do all the other extras that they do for free? How can teachers protest something going on against them? There will be absolutely no mechanism to allow for disagreement. It will essentially mean teachers have no way to voice discontent and have to take whatever the government wants to do. Government wants to cut teachers pay by 25% for some reason? Well, what can teachers do about it? They can't strike, they can't work to rule, what do they do? They have to take the cuts. Let me ask you this, how would you feel about this?

This provincial government has long said it wasn't anti-teachers, but that's clearly not the case. They also claim to want to attract the best teachers to work here. Their actions say otherwise. After all, who really wants to work in an environment like that? An environment where you get no respect from the government, school boards and in many cases, parents. All you get is told how bad you are over and over again. There's a reason why people leave the profession so much. I can say this, if this actually comes to pass instead of being an idea, I had better have my dream job somewhere nearby by August of next year or I will probably leave. The environment here is very hostile and it just won't be worth it.

Update of sorts

Last Thursday I did get work, but not on Friday. I went to Port Dover to teach physics! I was quite happy with this. The classes all went well so I was happy. It was great being in a physics classroom again. Had some great conversations with some of the staff there and one of the other supplies. She was a lot of fun to talk with. One really good thing about all the recent work? The pay at the end of the month will be similar to that of a full-time new teacher. I was two days short of working every day in the pay period so it's going to be a really nice pay for me and I'm really happy with that.

Then of course I've been working at the store on both Thurs and Fri nights. Blah. I've been kept busy both nights working with others so that kept the boredom down for me. However I'm working there today from 12-9. Blah. It's going to suck in other words.