SCHOOL BOARDS ARE "SPECIAL"

Boy oh boy, delivering the vote sure does have its' perks. As per the December 31/13 Waterloo Region Record article titled "School board managers escape wage freeze"; it sure looks as if the Education sector are treated with kid gloves. "The Liberal government implemented a two-year wage freeze in 2010 for non-union government managers, to ease a record deficit of $21 billion. Ontario school boards continued to award annual pay hikes averaging three per cent to many senior managers, according to an analysis by the Globe and mail newspaper.".

Further "The government has since passed new legislation that freezes non-union wages past 2012. The new law is clear that "senior executives at school boards should be covered by the wage freeze"". Apparently the loophole that school boards availed themselves of was the definition of "bargain collectively". While most of the unwashed masses would interpret that as unionized employees; the boards being much smarter and educated determined that superintendants could be considered a collective group. If you are noticing a small whiff of barnyard animal waste right now, you are not the only one. A spokesperson for the Education Minister did not respond to the question as to whether the government will seek to claw back earlier wage increases.