Ontario Teachers Tighten the Screws

[WWWTT]

We need to ban all trade unions. Outlaw them completely. They have far too much power. Disproportionately so.

Sorry Sentence 2.(d). of the charter of rights and freedoms clearly states "everyone has the right to freedom and association"

We need to uphold the charter!

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[WWWTT]

Yesterday at the ONDP provincial council ( held at the Metro hotel on Chesnut st behind TO city hall). A resolution unanimously passed to condemn bill 115!

It is absolutely appalling that the government is taking away education workers rights to negotiate a fair contract!

And this is only the beginning.Once the teachers lose their rights,then other workers will follow!

And pretty soon the middle class will evaporate!

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[Fletch 27]

TEachers deserve to loose ALL of thier rights.. the only people with NO rights in thier minds are the Students and teachers. It will be a tough haul but this union needs to be shut down... Bring in Educators... Not Union lackeys our for themselves...

[Michael Hardner]

TEachers deserve to loose ALL of thier rights.. the only people with NO rights in thier minds are the Students and teachers.

You have very bad spelling and grammar. Does your experience in schools have something to do with your bad opinion of teachers ?

[Fletch 27]

Quite Simple Michael... This is a web-site/blog...... and Im not really concerned about my typing here.. And on the teachers? Bad opinion? I simply do not like how they hold students and parents hostage.... I find it sickening honestly... I wont even go into the whole "brainwashing" thing.... (The Obama rally school trip?)

Any meeting notes and call reports are world-renouned..

[Michael Hardner]

I simply do not like how they hold students and parents hostage.... I find it sickening honestly...

Right. Well they have been doing it in Ontario since the early 1970s, I think, so you must really be upset.

[Fletch 27]

Thats right Michael! For far too long! And Ontarians ARE upset! Are you condoning the actions as "its been going on since the 70's"???? Yes, lets continue to bankrupt the province cuz.... Its been happening since the 70's..

[Michael Hardner]

Thats right Michael! For far too long! And Ontarians ARE upset!

I`m just pointing out that this system has been in place for about 40 years. You wouldn`t know it from the firecrackers of false outrage that people toss around on here sometimes. I get it, though.

[Fletch 27]

Why can outrage not be outrage... WTF is this "False Outrage"..... Can we simply note have "Had ENOUGH"? Time to change the system, the Unions broke it.... Break up the Unions and get back to the task at hand., TEACHING!

[Michael Hardner]

Why can outrage not be outrage... WTF is this "False Outrage".....

It's fake because nobody could be that angry for 40 years. That's a recipe for historic constipation if there ever was one.

Break up the Unions and get back to the task at hand.,

The details on how to pull that off are a little scant, but we've noted your displeasure.

[The_Squid]

Hyperbole: Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Some examples from this thread that no one can take seriously because they are so stupidly outrageous:

Break up the Unions and get back to the task at hand....

Yes, lets continue to bankrupt the province

they hold students and parents hostage....

TEachers deserve to loose ALL of thier rights..

fire all the strikers and bring on the scabs!

We need to ban all trade unions. Outlaw them completely. They have far too much power. Disproportionately so.

Time for Parents and regular citizens to stand up agains this tyrannical group of hostage-takers.

The hyperbole does not foster debate. It sounds ridiculous.

[Michael Hardner]

The hyperbole does not foster debate. It sounds ridiculous.

Also, conveys the aforementioned impression of false outrage.

Also, depicts unrealistic scenarios as being more likely than they are.

Also, makes reasonable posters on the same side of the argument look bad.

We don't see left-of-centre posters coming on here and saying "the rich should

[Wayward Son]

I would also add that some (not all) of those on the right posting in this thread seem to feel that law in this country should be arbitrary. So much for the claims that those on right are the ones that believe in law and order. Instead it seems that for some the law can be dismissed when they find it inconvenient to their worldview.

[WWWTT]

TEachers deserve to loose ALL of thier rights..

Nope sorry,in order to lose your rights you must be convicted of committing a criminal offence.

I do not believe that someones opinion can somehow circumvent Canadian law!

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[WWWTT]

Yes, lets continue to bankrupt the province

I think Mike Harris and Dalton McGuinty have done a good job at that on their own.

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[MiddleClassCentrist]

I wish this discussion was more productive and less emotive.