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Tessa Rose Jackson:
🎵 The Lighthouse
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#Rant
Rob Shaw is solidifying his position as the new Dean of Right Wing, anti-Worker Legislative Reporters in British Columbia.
With these gems, it's incredible that he has an education or goes to a doctor at all…
"The BCTF is typically one of the most militant unions, and quickly prone to job action.”
BCTF Strikes since 2000:
2005
2014
phew! almost got to three!
Remember that this was at the time of a union-busting BC Liberal government that had to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to get told that they ripped up union contracts unconstitutionally and were *forced* to compensate many years later.
"The ratification is a win for a New Democrat government. And extraordinarily expensive for taxpayers, too."
“extraordinarily expensive. Really? How is a wage increase that is *barely* in line with inflation after literally decades of below-inflation increases, “extraordinary”? I'll wait.
"Teachers can thank the BCGEU for turning what was an initial 3.5 per cent wage offer over two years by government, into a more than 12 per cent increase over four that is now forming the baseline for all other union deals."
Indeed! For those who can do math, that means 3% each of 4 years instead of 3.5 over two. But thanks Rob for making it seem like 4 times more!
Thanks BCGEU members for your solidarity and perceverence! I have been on strike. It sucks HARD. But it was worth it and it works.
"The ratification by the BCTF means roughly half of the 450,000 public sector employees now have deals of some sort with the province. Two majors left on the table are nurses and doctors.”
Oh no! Let’s not pay doctors and nurses! Surely they'll stay regardless in our incredibly overworked and under resourced healthcare system!
Like how does Mr Shaw believe we are to stay competitive or attract people. Or is he just not worried about getting sick….
"The skyrocketing deficit has the NDP government inking sweetheart deals with organized labour on the one hand, while pledging to cut public sector jobs with the other.”
Ya, we could have kept those public sector jobs if it weren't for fools like you who demanded governments cut taxes over the past 20 years instead of reasonable rises to... again…keep up with inflation and retain service!
It is a crappy balancing act that the NDP is doing and I do not like a lot of it. At the same time as Mr. Shaw complains about "sweetheart deals" for people in post-secondary, I am seeing historic cuts in that same sector. It's a blood bath actually. So the potential wage increases are going to be welcome, but feel pretty hollow as so many collegues have left.
Rob Shaw would have had us all lose our jobs and take a pay cut at the next one for good measure.
Thanks but no thanks Rob, your world view sucks.
https://www.nsnews.com/economy-law-politics/rob-shaw-ndp-deal-with-bc-teachers-sets-another-costly-precedent-for-public-sector-talks-11966874

“Teachers who use AI ‘will replace those who don’t’, the chair of the Oireachtas committee on artificial intelligence has warned.
Fianna Fšil TD Malcolm Byrne said he was worried Ireland was at risk of falling behind in discussions around how AI can be ‘responsibly integrated into our formal education system.’”
Fianna Fšil TD Malcolm Byrne is a fool who doesn’t have the first clue about what he’s taking about.

‘Teachers who use AI will replace those who don’t,’ Oireachtas committee chair warns
Teachers who use AI “will replace those who don’t”, the chair of the Oireachtas committee on artificial intelligence has warned.

Thousands of public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday,
the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years.
The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to reach an agreement over higher wages,
health benefits and more resources for special needs students.
The San FranciscoUnified School District closed all its 120 schools
and said it would offer independent study to some of the district’s 50,000 students.

The First Thing They Burn: Why War Always Comes for Beauty
When the Mongol army sacked Baghdad in 1258, they did not stop at killing the Caliph. They threw the contents of the House of Wisdom into the Tigris. Manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and poetry turned the river black with ink for days. Killing people was not enough. What those people had made, what they had thought and dreamed and rendered into form, that had to be annihilated too.

The First Thing They Burn: Why War Always Comes for Beauty | David Boles, Blogs
When the Mongol army sacked Baghdad in 1258, they did not stop at killing the Caliph. They threw the contents of the House of Wisdom into the Tigris. Manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, mathematics…

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Tessa Rose Jackson:
🎵 Built To Collide
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https://tessarosejackson.bandcamp.com/track/built-to-collide-3
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KI-Wettrüsten: Techriesen investieren dieses Jahr 650 Milliarden US-Dollar
KI-Investitionen erreichen astronomische Höhen. Mehr als eine halbe Billion US-Dollar wollen große US-Techkonzerne dieses Jahr in die Technologie stecken.

I’d like to hear what precisely the Gov and the Mayor think they’re going to do — and not just •hear•; I want to •see• it happening.
I’d like the teachers’ union and parent groups like Minneapolis Families for Public Schools discuss what they want on this front, and start making good demands.
Maybe this is already happening…but if so, I haven’t heard anything about it yet.
11/

I really don't understand why, with no negotiations since October, Mayor Lurie and Congesswoman Pelosi believe that NOW is the time to urge for a 72 hr delay in a strike action. Maybe they could have offered constructive engagement earlier? The strike vote was no surprise.
("Negotiations between the San Francisco Unified School District and the United Educators of San Francisco started in March, but reached an impasse by October. The two sides only returned to the bargaining…

San Francisco teachers strike: Here’s where both sides stand
The teachers union and the school district still remain far apart on wages, healthcare, and special education.

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The Church:
🎵 The Unguarded Moment
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https://musictotheworld.bandcamp.com/track/the-church-the-unguarded-moment
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