TEACHERS' UNIONS & LIBERALS FACE ANOTHER SHELLACKING

Yesterday's Waterloo Region Record carrys this Opinion piece from Luisa D'Amato titled "Liberals will close schools because they're broke after pacifying teachers". Luisa relates the promises from the Liberals including premier Kathleen Wynne that there would not be cuts to Health or Education. Apparently that's long out the window now as the Liberals face massive deficits. The interesting part of course is the math when you look at recent concessions given to the teachers. The auditor general this week advised that those concessions to pension benefits and sick leave cost taxpayers $468 million. Just about exactly the $500 million that the Liberals are trying to now save by closing schools. The irony of course, and this is hardly the first union to screw newer employees for the benefit of more senior ones, is that indeed it will be the more recent teachers who are let go first as schools close.