Re: AUT: The Internet as scab

[Neil Fettes <fettesn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:18 AM 11/10/97 +0000, you wrote:

You needen't have worried. Three of the five teachers' unions in Ontario
decided to call off the strike on Friday and the other two followed suit
shortly after, each promising to keep fighting. Uh huh.

One person I spoke to told me they couldn't speak for long becasue they were
having trouble talking with such a large knife in their back.

CGs

Neil

BTW, Ottawa is the capital of Canada, not a province. Ontario is the province.

>Subject: File 4--The Internet as scab
>
>An interesting article appeared in the October 28
>Boston Globe about
>striking teachers in the province of Ottawa. The
>strike is over
>typical work rules ("class size, length of the
>school day, and number
>of hours of teaching time"). But one paragraph in
>particular caught my
>eye:
>
>        If the strike continues, provincial
>authorities said,
>        they will urge parents to educate their
>children at home
>        using assignments and learning aids
>provided on the
>        Internet.
>
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