With high schools on strike in Peel Region, an online poll in the Mississauga News indicates that 72% of parents there believe that teaching in the public school system should be an essential service. It is a question often asked when employees in the public sector (that includes teachers) go on strike. Teachers were given the right to strike about 50 years ago along with other pubic services. Since then the right to strike has been withdrawn, most recently from transit workers. The Mississauga News polls shows 72 percent in favour of teaching being an essential service, 26 percent opposed and 3 percent didn’t know. Meantime, no details are being offered by the Elementary School Teachers on just where and what they will do next week in Ontario. This is their “Special Strike Action”. It seems like a pretense to let them catch schools and parents by surprise Globe and Mail
