If they really were concerned about students possibly losing their year, incurring more debt from being forced to take extra semesters, and losing out on well-paying summer jobs because they have to attend summer school, then they would be in the classrooms right now.
I think teacher in all public educati0nal institutions should be deemed essential services and prohibited from striking. These days, a post-secondary education is pretty much a necessity, not a nice-to-have thing. The fact is that when teachers go on strike, it affects people’s lives.
I don’t understand why teachers (or anybody for that matter) are so reluctant to give up the right to strike, as the binding-arbitration process would replace it. Arbitration is a very powerful negotiating tool, especially since it is the employees who usually come out the winners.
