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| Ontario Legislative Building - Toronto (Photo credit: Al_HikesAZ) |
The Government of Ontario recently
imposed a two year wage freeze on teachers and cut back the number of allotted sick
days. Not given the right to negotiate, teachers' unions staged a number of one
day strikes across the province in December. Labour unrest continues.
Worried
about the labour strife between the teachers' union and the provincial
government?
Hate to be
Mrs. Doom-and-Gloom here, but you ain't seen nothing yet.
The global
financial markets are melting down faster than a Fukushima
power plant
and thinking
that it won't affect Canada is like thinking you can
exchange bodily fluids with
Typhoid Mary and not get sick.
Sooner or
later the government is going to roll back wages for teachers
and all public
service workers.
Roll them
back big time.
And when it
happens it won't be pretty.
accept massive pay cuts or massive
layoffs.
But it
isn't the mandate of the unions to read the writing on the wall.
It is the
job of an aging Cassandra wailing in the bloggy wilderness.
Apparently.
