All of the demands the teachers want will come of the backs of people on low/minimum wage. I don’t get a vote when they are threatening to strike or or work to rule but I sure do pay for it. It’s low wagers that can’t afford to take time off work while teachers blackmail us. Teachers don’t shout about their pay increase demands. The pay increase they want is bigger than anything the majority of Nova Scotia will get anytime soon. Teachers withdraw your pay increase demands and start teaching and doing your prep in the nine or 10 paid vacation weeks you get every year. Not to mention the pension you get. Low wagers have had enough of your bullshit. —Sick of leecher-teachers on my back
This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2017.
You can become a teacher too; stay in school. My friend, Montrealman, would suggest that.
If you stay in school, you won’t be a minimum wager earner long. If you stay in school, you’ll have a better chance of understanding the demands of the union rather than writing foolish, uninformed bitches that don’t relate to the issue.
Mod: it’s a slow bitch day, but do you have to post bitches from the slow?
Alas, poor Montrealman! I knew him, Methinks: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
The name Montrealman sends a shudder through the bowels of Halifax’s Great Underclass. A perpetual recipient of the annual Golden Douche Awards.
Teachers’ salaries are posted online. On average, most salaries range from $86k to $135k a year. Aside from a sweet pension package, long service award & accumulated sick days, teachers have top line health & dental care and the summers off. Are they worth it? No. Can this province afford their demands? Again, no. It’s time this union learns that it’s not 1987 anymore.
Right on OP. It’s about time someone spoke the truth about this situation. Stephen McNeil doesn’t shit money so if the teachers blackmail him into agreeing to their demands he has no choice but to raise taxes. When I see the teachers union marching in crowds to raise the minimum wage and make sure the children they teach are fed and warm at home then I might be more sympathetic. But right now it’s the same old greedy teachers union wanting more just for themselves. Go back to doing the job you signed up for you lazy bastards.
Fuck the teachers!!! They can eat a big, fat dick.
Hahaha! Are you offering Furious?
No, he’s offering slow and gentle.
“Stay in school” is such an easy clich bullshit thing to spew. Sometimes life gets in the way. Different variables for different people.
Not giving into the union’s demands is the only positive thing I’ve seen MacNeil do, and he has my support. Regardless of what you make, this province cannot afford to be giving these unions the money they are demanding. Stop the union financial stranglehold on this province!
Mad the free babysitters aren’t staying around longer to babysit your teen who was raised to fear walking home from school alone.
The parents are the leeches!
Macneil has my support. Already the pigs at NSGEU are lined up at the trough drooling with their “me too” attitude. Nurses will be next. Can’t have one union getting something they do not now can we? I mean seriously people? You have an awesome pension plan propped up constantly by taxpayers (many of whom have none). You get 35 grand in a “Thank you for living off the taxpayer” when you retire and a $5000.00 raise when you take a bird course. Most teachers were partying for a week when they learned they secured their first full time teaching gig yet now whine and whine about how tough it is. Comical.
Speaking of nurses, now that Christmas is over, we can say good riddance to the 6000 adds featuring Janet Hazelton.
Do union members really want their dues to pay for this annual celebration of Janet Hazeltons vanity?
It’s only free if you’re a welf, Donny. Nothing is “free” as long as you pay taxes, but I guess a life on the cheque would make you think it’s free.
Finally!
After decades of saying “our children’s education is important, let’s give the teacher more. It is no sweat off my back if the tax payers are forking out an extra 5k? 10k?”
Finally we are saying “the nova scotia standard of education is way behind other provinces, the teachers aren’t rising to the occasion, they don’t deserve yet another 5k? to add to their up to 135k per year salaries, and Yes, as a taxpayer it is sweat off my back. And because the province is running a deficit, it is actually sweat off our children’s back. The same children they arent teaching to be competitive against other province……….Fuck off teachers. JUST FUCK OFF AND DO YOUR JOB FOR A CHANGE”
Tie the pay to performance; if the students are consistently ranking at the top of the national standings, then the teachers should be paid appropriately. Innovate and raise the quality of your work, and then come back for a raise.
@golocal if the public schools weren’t run by the NSTU then you might see some actual educational reform occur in schools. Even a non union teacher with a PhD in Education isn’t able to get a public school job!
When a union says it isn’t about the money, it IS about the money. $60,000+ for 9 months work is pretty good.
Oh I love the stay in school people, like another poster said about the union its not 1987 anymore, Lots of people in this province with educations working at Tim Hortons and the hardware store, Can’t wait for the latest influx of educated immigrants to come knock you off your high horse buddy, We’ll find someone to bean count for half as much as you will pffft
@Bobby 33…It is a sliding scale when you retire from a Nova Scotia government pay cheque but it CAN EASILY EQUAL a year’s salary….$35,000 is low. This benefit does need to go.