Right on. Stand up and be counted, we do live in a democratic country do we not?

It's about time it came to a head. The only solution is to encourage anyone that doesn't like the pay or the job anymore, to leave. That would be the best solution for the children and their future. It is not right that a person should be forced to do a job that is not right for them.

It is one thing for an individual to leave a "job" when one no longer likes the "job". It is another to leave a "job" when one feels that the compensation is insufficient as are the job conditions which allow you to do a "proper" job.

This is not truck drivers, store clerks, accountants, engineers, or others protesting job conditions. Those who chose those jobs are most certainly able to leave their place of employment and look for greener pastures in the same "career" with another employer. In fact, it happens every day and is one of the features of a free-market environment.

Being a teacher in BC, and I believe almost everywhere in North America, is quite different. Ther is one employer for the entire province. If you want to leave the employer, but want to continue teaching, you have to move to another province. That is highly abnormal.

For highly abnormal situations such as that, one must provide conditions which provide both parties similar freedoms as are available to the general working population. I see nothing to show that the government has given any consideration to that.

I am sorry YDBC, but you make no case for your inequitable solution to this matter. If one were to apply such a point of view, while others provinces dis not, BC would soon have to raise the salaries simply because there would not be enough teachers and that pool may be of a lower calibre on average than the existing pool.

I sometimes wonder about people like Yamadamadingdong. His opinion that we should encourage people to leave if they don't like the pay in public sector work is ridiculous.

Let's see: If doctors don't like the pay they get, let's encourage them to leave shall we? Same for nurses, let's force them out of the province. That will really benefit the sick, won't it? BC can then save a buck, can't it?

Anyway, force enough teachers to quit teaching and we can close another school or two, can't we, Yama, or maybe four or fifty? Oh how much we can benefit our children.

Owl, I like your thoughts and consideration on the matter of employment, but you make my case for me. Just because someone wants to be a teacher does not mean we have to jack up the wages until they are satisfied. It just doesn't work, we have a long way to go to utopia.
On the other hand that idiot AMoron can't even come up with a decent argument for the teachers. AMoron would probably suport the Catholic priests who were equally confused regarding children in their care.

What???

Really got to you, did I?

Ditto :)

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