It is a tentative agreement and ratification vote is some weeks off. Let’s hope for the best. Even Thursday morning, Paul Elliot, president of the secondary teachers federation. was talking as if a strike were moments away. He excoriated the government and school boards for their “inexcusable radical management rights agenda.” It was an angry speech to school teachers about “the war on working people.” Also Thursday morning, Sam Hammond, head of the elementary teachers union, made a fiery speech to some members. He railed against school principals and others who wanted to make decisions about testing. This was apparently well-received by the elementary teachers present. He said that if the government did not accede to union wishes it was in for the fight of its life. Hamilton Spectator
