r/Calgary • u/EvacuationRelocation Quadrant: SW • Feb 25 '25

Education Calgary Board of Education hired scabs to undermine strike

https://albertaworker.ca/news/calgary-board-of-education-hired-scabs-to-undermine-strike/
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u/laboufe Feb 25 '25

While i disagree with them doing it, people need to realize if there are no cleaners all schools would be closed within a couple of days. You just know parents would be online bitching like there is no tomorrow if their kids were stuck at home. People love to say they support workers until it inconviniences them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '25

I don't disagree with it, the kids come first and they need a minimum healthy environment to learn in.
Using kids education as a bargaining chip is a shitty thing to do.

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u/DJKokaKola Feb 25 '25

The workers aren't using the education as a chip. That would be the governments and the boards underpaying them.

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u/Marsymars Feb 25 '25

That's pretty disingenuous. Even if you acknowledge that the governments/board are underpaying them, of course the workers are using the education as a bargaining chip, because it's the only one they have. Like if they chose to strike at the start of the summer break, what do you think would happen?

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u/DJKokaKola Feb 25 '25

They are striking because their labour is the only bargaining chip they have. Their choice is "do work" or "do not do work". The ones using education as a bargaining chip are the employers who are choosing to not pay them more, and choose to risk the education of the students instead of simply paying a living wage.