Teachers have been one of the best paid government workers in Ontario and Ontario teachers are among the best paid in North America.
Of course they need to strike. They need more. They always need more or they will strike.
Would it be too much to ask you to get facts to support your arguments? Or to place those arguments or facts in context. Let me help.
The top paid teachers (at the top of their pay grid) in Canada can be found in Nunavut, followed by Winnipeg and Edmonton, with Ontario teachers in 4th.
Not all teaching jobs are created equally.
www.narcity.com
Note that Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan, both with a much lower cost of living than Ontario are right behind in pay.
If we compared them to teachers in the United States.....
They would make less than teachers in Alaska, New York State or Connecticut.
As with Canada, there are several more jurisdictions with only slightly lower pay.
https://www.app.com/story/news/inve...sis/2018/04/12/teacher-salary-2017/508703002/ (figures are in USD, remember to apply 1.33 multiple to get CAD equivalent)
Making them, roughly in a tie for 7th highest in North America.
To be clear, they are well paid, but it could certainly be higher; and Ontario out performs most of the jurisdictions paying more, when looking at PISA results and graduation rates.
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Now that we have that sorted..........what of these teacher strikes???
There has in fact been only one province-wide strike by teachers in the last 22 years..
While there were some localized ones and limited job actions, few if any were centred on pay.
There hasn’t been a full-blown strike by the province’s secondary school teachers since 1997.
www.thestar.com
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Ontario teachers are actually among the most qualified in North America (higher levels of educational attainment)
I'm not quite sure what you have against them. The current issue is over class-size change that I have already evidenced here as unworkable; and won't ultimately be implemented.
The issue is not wages.
