They are given an honorarium. In exchange for 8 hours of marking they were paid 200 dollars previously, so not a huge amount especially given that they have to travel and stay in hotels and are given all of 100 dollars for food and accommodations.
Now they cut the pay in half, so they are asked to mark for 8 hours and paid 100 dollars. This is the insult, so when a teacher goes and get s a coffee at Tim Horton's generally the kid making the coffee whose exam the teacher may be marking is being paid more than the teacher hourly that day.
The argument is that they are still paid their salary. However, at night in their hotel rooms they still do the job they are paid their salary for, as they are gone during the exam break when most teacher supervise and exam or do marking and prep work. The teachers in Edmonton do this at night, so the argument is bunk.
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