Joe says…
The teachers are on strike here in British Columbia where I live. The Telus (phone company) workers are too but the phones still work so who gives a shit. The kids are out of school as a result which means less traffic from parents droppping off and picking up. Other than that, can we stop with the signs and the not working and the union thing all together? Are working conditions so horrible that we still need unions? I’m clearly not in a union. I don’t even know anyone in a union. We’re all getting by just fine. If I’m not happy at work I either deal with it or address it but I don’t stand outside with a sign. The only people who read the signs are the people holding them and the other people that agree with them which are usually people from other unions. Otherwise we all just get annoyed.

You want more money. Boo hoo. Oh wait, you want to improve education for our children by lowering class sizes. How the fuck is that going to happen? They would either have to, a) build more schools (which they do albeit not as fast as you’d like) or, b) add more portables. So since this is either not realistic or simply undesireable, your claim of, “better education for our children” is just a smoke screen for, “I’d like more money”.

Dave says…
Is there a union for the self-employed? I’d dig that. Then I could strike against myself, set up a lawn chair out in front of my one-man office, and relax. People would honk and I would bask in the warm glow of their support.

What’s with that honking thing, anyway? I think half the people who honk at strikers are either doing it so the sign-holders will look over and check out the polite hand gestures being tossed at them, or so they can hear and appreciate the yells of “get a job!”

There’s a company over in Euclid, or South Euclid or whatever that’s been on strike for over two years. I’m thinking at this point the scabs are doing their jobs better than they ever did.

It seems to me that lowering class sizes would not only mean more classrooms, but more teachers as well. So this is some complicated math. If you’re all willing to take a pay cut so that more buildings will be erected and more teachers will be hired, come on back to the table. Sure, it’d be nice if we could take some of the money being wasted on a bunch of other crap and put it towards the goal of better education, but when was the last time you heard about a politician asking for less pork in the budget?

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