Teachers

[rhuarc29]

I have a sibling in IT. Worked in the private sector making $68K 45-48hrs/week. Was quite content. Got a IT union job in the public energy sector. Started at $112K, making $144K now. 35 hour work week. There are 4 people in her unit doing the work of two. She can't fill her days up with work but has become a master at Sudoku. Good for her, not so good for the taxpayer.

I have a relative also in the public energy sector. His base salary is over $180K, but since he can take OT pretty much whenever he wants, his actual salary approaches $250K. I regularly get personal emails from him during work hours. He plans getaways, does online shopping, and generally screws around at work...a lot. I'm not going to argue that what he does isn't important. It is. But considering he does the work of about half a person, what he does isn't $250K-on-the-taxpayer's-dime important.

I'd say the public sector needs more oversight, but I've yet to see public sector oversight be worth its cost to implement. There's just not enough incentive for the public sector to be efficient. Can you imagine how attractive Canada would be to invest in if we paid our public sector like our private sector and therefore lowered our taxes significantly?

 

[mikeeman]

Who isn't always whining and bitching? The only difference is their bitching makes the front page and whereas everybody else just bitches amongst themselves.

Idiot ....quoting an article that's 7 years old...McGuinty cost the taxpayers billions by renegging on buines contracts and in the case of teachers resulting in a supreme Court challenge which Libs lost and still not settled with teachers. Ford seems to be going down the same route with subway plans.

 

[basketcase]

Those TV commercials by teachers and their unions are so lame. They must think we are so dumb. We all know that "children are our future" is code for "we want more teachers, more money, more benefits, higher pensions, less hours, more vacation, less students per class, etc.

Strange but I haven't heard a word in those adds about pay. Seem to be complaining about class size increases and cuts to education.

 

[basketcase]

I wish Doug Ford would make school all year round like this they learn to keep quite. Some of us blue collar works have to work 2-3 jobs in order to make what they make and have no holidays and time to spears with family.

That would be great for the kids :der:. Don't know how I would have paid for my education if I didn't have summers to work two or three jobs.

 

[OnTheWayOut]

Let's not pretend they were 'working' for 45-48 hours, though. The average worker is only productive (read: does work) for maybe 3 hours per day.

Glad to hear I am way above average. I think those 3 hours guys are the ones that seem to live on Terb trying to "enlighten" everyone else LOL

 

[Darts]

Teachers picking fights with the provincial government isn't new. It is a continuation of a historical pattern regardless of which party is in power as the 7 year old article demonstrates.

 

[Darts]

California is a hardcore liberal lefty state so I was surprised to learn that a teacher MIA after using up their sick days must pay for a substitute teacher out of their own pocket. This is a 1976 law so it is likely to be repealed soon.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/09/health/teacher-breast-cancer-substitute-pay-trnd/index.html

 

[autumn96]

Teachers are among the most self-important segments of society, up there with journalists.