NO LACK OF ARROGANCE & BRASS

Today's Waterloo Region Record advises us that the local Teachers' Union have decided to call for a boycott of the local newspaper. That is an incredibly hostile and bullying manoevre especially when one recognizes the value in local newspapers at a very time for them. On-line news combined with all kinds of personal devices to access it has put hard copy newspapers in a very difficult position financially. The latest newspaper to shut down would be the Guelph Mercuy and let's not forget the Elmira Independent having gone that route last summer. The title of the article in today's Record is "Teachers' union calls for boycott of The Record".

Once again it is the ever aggressive public elementary teachers' union who are behind this action. Seems their controversial job actions last fall caused some public relations headaches and they especially didn't like the coverage by Louisa D'Amato of the Record. They claim that there has been "one sided reporting" by her over the past year. Interesting but I believe that I've been reading her columns for a couple of decades or more and she has long been on the education beat and called a spade a spade. Her reporting has not changed so I have to think that this is simply the teachers' unions bullys thinking that the Record are vulnerable at this time to their pressure. Once more shame on the public elementary teachers' union.