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Originally Posted by Azure
So let me get this right, teachers should be able to strike in the middle of a school year, thereby screwing over thousands of students, many of whom are in critical years in their development, simply because they get more leverage that way?
Mind boggling. Especially considering we are talking about teachers that make a VERY good living.
One of my high school teachers who had no choice but to strike said that he was making $80,000/year before the strike, and in a small town that is a DAMN fine living. He knew it too, and was pretty torn about the whole strike.
But hey, screw over the students little man at all costs to get I'm entitled too. Sounds a lot like what Wall Street does.
I guess if it is the holy public sector there is nothing wrong with it.
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Doctors take 'job action' all the time because of 'poor working condions', they aren't even a union, and get paid a whole hell of a lot more than most union workers that strike do. The teachers are a pretty militant union, as are the ferry workers out here on the coast. They can piss me off as much as the next guy, but let's not pretend job action is the sole domain of the working middle class. The people at the top like to throw their weight around just as much, often getting better results for themselves.