Path: utzoo!lsuc!nrcaer!sce!warpdrive!stewartw
From: stewartw@warpdrive.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Community College Teachers on strike
Message-ID: <7488@warpdrive.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 89 21:46:22 GMT
References: <606@alias.UUCP> <12258@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 31

In article <12258@watcgl.waterloo.edu> mark@watnext.waterloo.edu (Mark Earnshaw) writes:
>In article <606@alias.UUCP> kpicott@alias.UUCP (Socrates) writes:

>>Will someone from the teacher's side please explain to me what possible
>>justification they could have for doing this?  (Last time this almost
>>happened it was the government that stopped it from happening, not the
>>teachers, if I have my facts straight.)

>One additional note.  I seem to recall that the strike vote was only about 55%
>so a lot of the teachers don't really want to be on strike.  That's one reason

   Equally as interesting is that it's the Toronto teachers that are
really on strike.  They make up the majority of the teachers in the
union.  The teachers outside of Toronto are satisfied with the proposed
deal.  However, the Toronto teachers want more money to make up for their
higher cost of living.  I know that students in Ottawa are not very
happy about this.  The teachers aren't even bothering to picket here
any more (too cold); they just leave their signs posted.
   Also, rather disturbing is the lack of information available to the
students whose year is in jeapardy.  Most have no idea whether or not
they will get their tuition back and just how long their school year
might drag on until (important for summer jobs).




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