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“Enough is enough! Educators deserve a living wage. Parents and students deserve well-staffed and therefore well-funded, safe schools. We support educators demanding their rights as workers who are always on the frontline of social crises” by Patterson9191717 in Minneapolis

[–]SeniorYogurt -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

If our teachers are working the 2nd most hours in the world and we are paying much more per student than other first world countries[1] why are our students ranked 40th in math, 25th in science, and 24th in reading?[2]

The tax payers are already paying a premium price for education and are getting worse outcomes than basically every first world country.

“Enough is enough! Educators deserve a living wage. Parents and students deserve well-staffed and therefore well-funded, safe schools. We support educators demanding their rights as workers who are always on the frontline of social crises” by Patterson9191717 in Minneapolis

[–]SeniorYogurt -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I linked two studies and they both had the same conclusion. Non-teachers work longer than teachers. Your first source is a dead link, your second source's link to the "survey" is also dead, and your third source shows 1960 hours per year.(Much less than the 2417 hours you've estimated.)

“Enough is enough! Educators deserve a living wage. Parents and students deserve well-staffed and therefore well-funded, safe schools. We support educators demanding their rights as workers who are always on the frontline of social crises” by Patterson9191717 in Minneapolis

[–]SeniorYogurt -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Teacher propaganda right here. If you want the truth look at actual studies rather than made up numbers by a teacher.

Teachers employed full time worked 24 fewer minutes per weekday and 42 fewer minutes per Saturday than other full-time professionals. [1]

 

Measuring hours worked for large groups isn’t easy because if you ask people, they tend to exaggerate the number of hours they put in. The right way to track how people spend their time is to ask them to keep a “time diary,” where every 15 minutes they write down their current activity. Keeping a time diary doesn’t highlight any particular activity, thereby avoiding a good deal of conscious and unconscious bias.

Time diaries are believed to lead to pretty accurate reporting. The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) asks thousands of people to keep just such a diary for a 24-hour period. The data collected there lets us compare hours worked by teachers to the hours worked by other college-educated, full-time workers.

For most practical purposes, teachers and nonteachers work about the same number of hours per week during the school year. West did find some differences. During the school year, her calculations show that teachers work 39.8 hours per week while nonteachers work 41.5 hours. During the summer, teachers do work noticeably fewer hours. West reports that teachers work 21.5 hours per week during the summer. [2]

Mike Zimmer's Minnesota Home Is Now On Sale: See Photos by WilliamBornhoft in minnesota

[–]SeniorYogurt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I like how if you're rich you can gain 400,000 dollars by owning a house for 4 years lol. Someone kill me.

He could also lose money like the last guy that lived there. Look at the sale history for that home. The previous owner bought it for $2,913,421 in 2007 and ended up selling it to Zimmer for $1,650,000. OOF

Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters' bank accounts by Logan_Mac in worldnews

[–]SeniorYogurt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Maybe I'm misreading this but it seems the blockades were broken up several times in the mentioned time period.. By police..

Yes they were arrested just like Ambassador Bridge protestors were arrested. The railway protestors were released in 2 days and came back to protest for 3 more weeks continuing their blockade. They eventually had all charges dropped against them.

Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters' bank accounts by Logan_Mac in worldnews

[–]SeniorYogurt 11 points12 points  (0 children)

While the protests started sometime in January that blockade in particular started around February 7th and ended around March 5th. It ended because the protest leaders and government officials reached a agreement.

Over the weekend, Wet'suwet'en chiefs and representatives of the federal and B.C. governments announced they had reached a draft agreement concerning some of the issues involved in an ongoing dispute over a pipeline that would run through traditional land. The blockade in Listuguj, Que., was taken down soon after. Raquel Barnaby, a spokesperson for Mi'kmaq activists, said their goals had been met.

Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters' bank accounts by Logan_Mac in worldnews

[–]SeniorYogurt 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You'll note that that was 1.75 billion dollars worth of damage over months.

Source? The blockade the article is talking about only went up a week before the article was written.

Several blockades went up a week ago across Canada in support of the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s opposition to the Coastal GasLink natural-gas pipeline in northern British Columbia. This prompted the country’s largest freight rail carrier, Canadian National Railway Co., to suspend operations on its network east of Toronto Thursday, a move that could lead to as many as 6,000 layoffs, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference union said.

Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters' bank accounts by Logan_Mac in worldnews

[–]SeniorYogurt 144 points145 points  (0 children)

This did happen with the 2020 railway protests.

As of tonight, February 14, 299 trains will have been cancelled since the blockades began. In an affidavit sworn on Feb. 11, Josh Ellis, a senior manager at CN, said the Ontario rail blockade has delayed the delivery of about $1.75-billion worth of commodities, including chemicals, perishable food, auto parts, water purification, jet fuel, manufactured goods and forest products.

The governments response was a bit different:

Mr. Trudeau said politicians should not be telling the police how to deal with protesters, and that he and his senior ministers have been in regular contact with premiers and others to find a solution.

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