That's the DEFINITION of a union LOL!!!! Protecting jobs...good bad or ugly they are there to buffer ineptitude away from unemployment. NOBODY in a union wants to see their lazy/ineffective friends and family fired because they (smartly) managed to cherry pick a slushy job.  The first three weeks of school three? or was it four? classes of my sons were canceled for (insert no reason excuse). Best of all, even though we're in an information age with email and texting, he finds out with a note on the window of a locked door that his 1 hour each way bus trip was a waste.

Wish I could just decide not to work when my students REQUIRE my attendance or they just don't learn anything. College REQUIRES teachers to work or the students don't progress. University might be able to toss kids into books but that doesn't work with College.