Some big local news is a pending teachers strike.
Being a Chicagoan, this doesn’t strike as being really big news. Chicago public teachers have striked, threatened to strike, and the neighbors to the north, in Wisconsin, made national headlines. My mom is a retired teacher, and three of my best friends are teachers. I get it.
I’m of the belief that teachers should be paid for every hour they work. Lesson planning. Grading. Parent-teacher conferences. If there are CEOs of schools, then teachers are the hourly workers and thus ought to be paid overtime.
But I digress.
It’s no secret that the teachers unions calls the shots. And there’s been much grumbling about unions in the States. Wielding too much power, too self serving while proclaiming to be looking out for the profession. There are teachers unions in Canada too, but it doesn’t seem like they hold as much sway.
There was an article in a newspaper, 24Hours, that talked about rules and restrictions for the impending strike.
Yes, rules and restrictions on a strike. For instance, the union had to get permission from the Labor Board. They have to give notice. Striking only three days a week.
All strikes me as weird. Baffling.
Canadian unions, it seems, are different from American unions.