Let me get this straight

[singularity75]

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.

Comments

[singularity.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Striking in the summer is useless. The worst it would do would be to disrupt summer school, unless they make no striking during summer school, which means teachers can only strike in August. That'll work real well, especially since most boards of ed are closed for half of August. And to do all of this, the government would have to start defining all the teachers duties that teachers now do normally without a contract saying to do it (this would stop the work to rule strikes).

I absolutely hate Harris, and Eves has always been a severe annoyance, but now he's on my hate list. His party is losing in the polls badly, and wants to try to do anything to get votes. So this is done to try and get parents on his side to stop all the strikes that started a few years ago...which the PC party was responsible for starting in the first place!!