I am in the teacher's union as an Educational Assistant and do a job with autistic students most people wouldn't even consider. I would not have taken the job without a union to support me it's far too dangerous and otherwise undervalued. Vague generalizations about 'teachers' don't make sense when you consider there are 700 of me in one school board and we get paid less than half what a teacher makes. My actual compensation IS ridiculous, ridiculously low, and again you wouldn't want my job so why the generalizations? My profession has more WSIB claims related to violence than Police and Prison guards and school boards that literally ignore violent incidents leading some EA's to end up with PTSD and a host of other ailments. EAse up would ya?