Globe and Mail: Teachers union holds out for less money
Here’s an intelligence test drawn from real life.
Your employer offers you a reasonably generous pay raise every year for four years, but asks that you accept the terms by a certain date. If you don’t accept it, the offer will be withdrawn and a discounted offer put on the table.
The question is, do you accept the original generous offer or say, “No thanks, I’ll settle for something less”?
That, in a nutshell, is the predicament facing Ontario’s 73,000 public elementary school teachers this weekend as the four-year labour peace in the province’s education sector threatens to unravel.
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