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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

How many teachers actually voted?

After reading that the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario voted (online) 97 per cent in favour of accepting a 2 per cent wage increase that their members missed out on due to union intransigence, I'm a little confused. The casual reader will assume that 97 per cent of the 76,000 members of the union voted to accept the raise. This is a false assumption as the union will not reveal how many members actually voted from a pool of 76,000 members. Did 7,600 members vote online, with 97 per cent of those members voting to accept the raise offered by the provincial government? For this claim to be truthful, at least 70,000 union members must have voted (online). If this is true, why not say so? Unfortunately smoke and mirrors works better for them than the truth.
 
Mark-Alan Whittle, Hamilton
 

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