Nova Scotia universities sue teachers union over work to rule

DennisTate · Jan 31, 2017

This is certainly an interesting development in
the NSTU conflict with the McNeil provincial government.

In my opinion, one of the options that the NSTU should seriously consider is
a counter suit against Nova Scotia's Universities, especially their
Economics Departments,
for the intellectual dishonesty and mentality of
COLLABORATION that they have shown since
the 1980's in what certainly appears to be a scheme to break unions?!

I could be wrong.... but that is what it looks like to me
at this time considering the evidence that I have dug up
so far???!

https://www.localxpress.ca/local-ne...s-sue-teachers-union-over-work-to-rule-523678
Nova Scotia universities sue teachers union over work to rule

You will also want to take a look at this post to get a
better background picture to what seems to be happening here:

http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=486137&page=3&p=1067059069#post1067059069
Thread: Subject: Government Update on Teachers (Nova Scotia Liberal Party)

My theory to a degree depends on ideas that
I wrote up in my 2006 campaign for the office of M. L. A.
as an indendent:

http://bankingsystemflaws.blogspot.ca

DennisTate · Jan 31, 2017

Now that I have read the article
I do have a suggestion for the NSTU.

https://www.localxpress.ca/local-ne...s-sue-teachers-union-over-work-to-rule-523678
Nova Scotia universities sue teachers union over work to rule

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“The urgency of this situation required the matter be placed before the Supreme Court as the best way to stand up for students and protect their interests,” Kent MacDonald, president of St. F.X., said in a news release. “If the job action continues, nearly 300 of our students will not graduate on time, causing harm and risk to their future careers.”
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There are about 600 students enrolled in two-year education programs at the five universities.

Section 31 of the Education Act states that

“every school board and every teacher employed by a school board shall admit to classrooms under the jurisdiction of the board students who are enrolled in a teacher training course approved by the minister and the instructors of those students for the purpose of observation and teaching practice, and shall give them any assistance requested by the instructors.”
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Jeff Orr, dean of the faculty of education at St. F.X. and chairman of the interuniversity committee on teacher education for the province, had said earlier that the Education Act takes precedence over the teachers Collective Bargaining Act.
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My opinion on this is that it is best for the NSTU to
concede on this point.... and take in student teachers
and assist them to fulfill their requirements to get their
degrees plus work experience!

The risks involved in NOT conceding on this particular point
seem to be greater than the potential benefits
in interpreting your "work to rule" action in such a way
that could not accommodate this previous agreement
that is spelled out in the Education Act.

DennisTate · Feb 10, 2017

This is an exceptionally good article on the subject.

I agree with the writer that the NSTU should follow the example set in Ontario.

The risks are too great to do otherwise.

https://www.localxpress.ca/local-ne...ry-website-notices-to-student-teachers-527713
Only recourse was to sue NSTU, universities say

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The posts said that the universities are aware of and sincerely appreciate the important role that the province’s teachers play in helping to educate future teachers.

“Section 31 of the Education Act reflects and protects the value of this important experience. Unfortunately, the current directive by the NSTU to not accept student teachers is in violation of that law. In short, we are specifically challenging one directive of the work-to-rule action in support of you, our education students whose careers are at stake.”

The university presidents explained to their education students that the NSTU had requested contingency plans from the universities and those plans were sent out on Jan. 9. But the NSTU did not respond, the university presidents said.

“When we explored other jurisdictions — like Ontario, where work-to-rule was in place for many months — we found that student practicums proceeded under work-to-rule action.”
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... but as can be seen in this other discussion,
the NSTU does certainly have the option to
wonder if incompetence on the part of the economics departments
at Canadian universities since 1974 is at the heart of the problem.

I elaborate further on this idea in the first three posts in this other discussion:

http://www.politicalforum.com/canada/495697-kevin-oleary-open-letter-premier-nova-scotia.html
Kevin O'Leary: Open Letter to the Premier of Nova Scotia

I am one of the members of his party who is extremely
glad that National Conservative Party Leadership candidate Mr. Kevin O'Leary
wrote the following letter to Premier Stephen McNeil.

DennisTate · Feb 11, 2017

Here is one of the best and clearest articles that I have read that
is evidence that the economics departments and most Canadian
universities have been giving students an incomplete picture of
what really happened back in 1974.

http://www.michaeljournal.org/artic...ce-our-country-debt-free-say-three-economists
The Bank of Canada Must Finance our Country, Debt-Free Say Three Economists

by Harold Chorney, John Hotson, and Mario Seccareccia

“Governments these days find it easy to defend cuts in services and programs. All they have to do is point to their annual deficits and their total accumulated debts. (As of March, 1994, Canada's public debt was about $546 billion.) This public debt provides the politicians with a convenient excuse for cutting spending or raising taxes. Or both. «We're broke,» they tell us plaintively. «We can't afford to increase public services, or even keep them at their present level.»
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The Bank of Canada has failed in its duty

“Why isn't the same thing happening today? Why was a much larger national debt shrugged off in 1945, while today's much smaller debt (as a percentage of GDP) is being used as an excuse to let the economy stagnate?

“The answer can be found at the Bank of Canada. During the war, and for 30 years afterward, the government could borrow what it needed at low rates of interest, because the government's own bank produced up to half of all the new money. That forced the private banks to keep their interest rates low, too.

“Since the mid-1970s, however, the Bank of Canada, with government consent, has been creating less and less of the new money, while letting the private banks create more and more. Today «our» bank creates a mere 2% of each year's new money supply, while allowing the private banks to gouge the government — and of course you and me, as well — with outrageously high interest rates. And it is these extortionate interest charges that are the principal cause of the rapid escalation of the national debt. If the federal government were paying interest at the average levels that prevailed from the 1930s to the mid-1970s, it would now be running an operating surplus of about $13 billion!”

The updated version (January, 1996) of the pamphlet expresses the same ideas:

“The Bank of Canada was established in 1935 by an Act of Parliament. In its legislative mandate, it is directed to promote economic growth and employment, as well as preserving the value of the Canadian dollar.

“Shortly after the Bank opened its doors, it was faced with the bankruptcy of provincial governments due to the Depression. Interpreting its mandate widely, as it is supposed to do, it made precedent-setting loans to restore the finances of Manitoba. Generous loans to other provinces followed.

“World War II found Canada ready and determined to act in the Allied cause. The war effort of the federal government was financed through enormous deficits and very low interest rates brought about by the Bank of Canada. At war's end, the national debt stood at about 120% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), nearly double the level of today. Yet Canada went on to enjoy the greatest period of economic growth in its history...

“(Now) the Bank of Canada has decided that any government spending not financed by taxation is inflationary, so it no longer extends credit to the government by holding bonds and Treasury bills. Its small holdings of government debt are confined to the banknotes needed by the economy for currency in circulation...” (End of 1996 updated version's excerpts.)
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“Many economists rail against «wage push», and it's true that wages have risen by 2,700% over the past 50 years. But in the same period government tax revenue went up by 3,400%, and net interest by 26,000%! Yet, most of the economic textbooks that deplore rising wages don't even mention the tax and interest pushes. And it is not because they are complex ideas — rather, they are simple and obvious — but because it would be so embarrassing for economists to admit they've made a boner of such magnitude: that their theory of monetary policy violates basic principles of scientific logic.
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DennisTate · Feb 15, 2017

Richard Dawkins Ph. D. is LYING when he terms himself
an Atheist!

He is obviously an Agnostic...... not an Atheist as is obvious
from his comments in this video interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL7CCyuXAS4
Richard Dawkins: Aliens Seeded Earth?

Richard Dawkins Ph. D. is deliberately lying and terming himself
an Atheist, rather than an Agnostic, because our culture considers
Atheism significantly more COOL than Agnosticism........
but more of an open mind to the implications of all this is critical to
laying the foundation for a massive real estate boom in the Canadian and USA
economy.

University biology text books are deliberately written in
an intellectually dishonest manner because our brightest and best minds
are uncomfortable with the almost obvious implications of the following
questions:

http://www.politicalforum.com/opini...lligence-begin-matter-fundamental-energy.html
Where did Intelligence begin, in matter or fundamental energy?
I am an Evolutionary Theist........

I am of the belief that a being with "Godlike" technological capability

began, far far far far far more than 13.72 billion years ago, in
fundamental or nearly fundamental energy that to at least some
degree corresponds with "Energy from Quantum Vacuum."

This Intelligence learned and learned, and experimented..... .and
designed Big Bang type events, nearly an infinite number of them,
and eventually, around 13.72 billion year or so ago began our.......
Big Bang event that led to the evolution plus creation of
all the life forms that we see here on earth.

I just found out this morning that a published author is far far far far ahead of
my rather simplistic understanding of this question.

https://www.amazon.com/Biocosm-Scientific-Evolution-Intelligent-Architect/dp/1930722222

Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life Is the Architect of the Universe

Biocosm challenges both sides of the controversy over evolution and creationism. This carefully reasoned book proposes that life and intelligence have not emerged as a series of random accidents, as Darwinists like Stephen Jay Gould have maintained, but are hardwired into the cycle of cosmic creation, evolution, death, and rebirth. Gardner's theory of an exponential coevolution of biological and electronic intelligence, designed and directed, offers an extraordinary vision of a universe of point and purpose. Stunning color photos are included.
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So how does this relate to a boom in Canadian and USA real estate in
rural areas?

http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=496117&p=1067115300#post1067115300
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Are professors capable of intellectual dishonesty?

No... never!!!!

Yes.... if the price is right!

Yes... .if their salary, pensions and benefits are in danger.

I think we all lie to ourselves about some things.

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Yes... .if their salary, pensions and benefits are in danger.

I think we all lie to ourselves about some things.

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