Sean
@seandunn.bsky.social
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Once described as "not nearly as serious as they first seem." Accurate. Not the sandwich-throwing one.
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seandunn.bsky.social
Teacher Day Camp?
Embarrassing.
ATA Learn How to Strike Challenge.
asilvalining.bsky.social
The ATA is literally infantilizing their members then wonder why the public doesn’t consider them professionals….
Pick up a sign and picket like ALL LABOUR ORGS! @albertateachers.bsky.social @schilldawg.bsky.social
seandunn.bsky.social
Baseball in Toronto?
seandunn.bsky.social
Why are American sports graphics always so cheesy? Thanks Sportsnet for the clean minimalism.
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saletan.bsky.social
Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.
sherylnyt.bsky.social
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
seandunn.bsky.social
The GoA Facebook ads that said in the video "more teachers mean more attention for every student." Ended on Oct 5.
The new video ads that started yesterday do not include this segment.
seandunn.bsky.social
It would be kind of funny if ATA started a campaign to unionize private and charter teachers.
smartalecw.bsky.social
They don't believe in public education, the professionalism of teachers, nor union activity.

Remember Bill 32? It made it so that union folks could opt out of "non-core functions" of their unions.
albertaworker.ca/news/kenneys...
seandunn.bsky.social
Hattie's work wasn't included in the 2019 GoA report on class sizes (itself suspect)
seandunn.bsky.social
All the arguments that "well, actually, teachers pickets are just fundamentally different than traditional labour pickets..." well, perhaps technically true, is also irrelevant.
That argument would be true for every other jurisdictions as well, but teachers still picket everywhere else.
seandunn.bsky.social
"When we fight we win" should mean the @albertateachers.bsky.social fighting for teachers' charter rights — including taking up the legal fight — and not obeying in advance through a never-ending series of hyper-risk-adverse excuses.
seandunn.bsky.social
ALRB itself recognizes that the legislation prohibiting secondary picketing is likely unconstitutional. Protesting near the office of an elected representative is a pretty strong case for freedom of expression. ..
seandunn.bsky.social
Can teachers exert an economic impact on the employer? No.
Can they stop other employees entering the place of work? No, why?
Can they be visible in their communities and raise awareness? Yes. So while it may not meet the same traditional labour purpose, a "picket" in front of a school has a purpose
seandunn.bsky.social
You seem to be making the case for why a teacher "picket" by colloquial meaning is not legally a picket by labour law rules.

So really has not much bearing on the question on why teachers aren't standing in front of schools where the communities they serve can see them "fighting" to win for them.
seandunn.bsky.social
High school core subjects class sizes, up until the UCP cancelled class size reporting in 2019.

How would they even know what and when the problems were if they didn't even care to measure?
seandunn.bsky.social
Lol, if you were going to be concerned about petitions you shouldn't have《checks notes》 made petitions easier.
Whatever happened to Smith's "direct democracy is best" schtick?
seandunn.bsky.social
For no reason whatsoever, reading up on the rules around picketing and where they intersect with charter rights of free expression.
seandunn.bsky.social
The littles this evening:
seandunn.bsky.social
Also the UCP: when choosing a private school, class size matters.

(Did you fact check those "studies", CTV?)