Strong favourites to lose their battle with the government is understating the union’s predicament.

One of the comments - “Negotiations can’t be based on parents need for day care! Wages in the private sector, have generally stayed status quo or, especially in the Niagara area, gone down. How can public workers expect wage and benefit increases? i recently went to a fund raiser supper at a high school in the Niagara area, to assist in the purchase of supplies and equipment for the school. I cannot believe when i hear teachers say that they feel they are worth much more money than they currently receive, and ask, isn’t your child’s education worth it?. They should try American wages for a while. Now they hold our kids for ransom. Terrible!”

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Rather it is a sure bet.

According to the Globe, teachers are only going out for one day.  I think that they can’t resist the $$ so they’ll only forfeit a day’s pay:  if they truly believed in their cause, they’d make a firm statement by going on strike and staying out—marching the picket lines throughout the bitter winter with their ‘honk if you support us’ signs and fires in barrels to ward off some of the bitterness of our winter weather.  Since they’re only going out for a day, their lucrative salaries and benefits trump their principled stance regarding their collective bargaining rights (besides classrooms are warmer).  Haha—at least they’re funny to watch .

Governments come, govwrnments go, parents come parents go, management comes and goes but the teachers are eternal, relentless, solid, organized, well financed.

Who will prevailin the long game.

The teachers unions have no particular worries about private schools so long as they use private money. OSSTF has actually quite a few private schools already organized into the union and will continue to work it.

Private schools are not necessarily non union schools.

Many charter schools in the USA are unionized. Just a matter of time.

Private education is 6% of education in Ontario.

Unions are going the way of the dinosaur, Joe.