By Matt Eckert

Excuse me, but why are we asking for permission to strike?

Um, sir, ah, I didn't mean to bother you during your cocktails, but why do we have to ask for permission to strike?

Well, I was kinda under the impression that a strike was the people's way of protesting. But, apparently, the Union bosses, such as yourself, have to get government permission.

Yeah, I understand that, but we're teachers. Which pretty much means the government is our boss. So, again, why are we asking our boss if we can strike?

I see, yes, I'm reading you loud and clear, Mr. Union representative, who takes my dues each paycheck. But, I don't think you're getting me. You see, a strike is a form of protest against an establishment that has degraded and underpaid its workers.

Now, I, being one of those workers, would like to protest the fact that I'm getting roughly minimum wage for educating 40 children every hour, while the establishment buys ballparks for baseball players that are only playing baseball because teachers like myself were too overloaded to teach them to do anything that uses their brains.

But, I digress, the point here is, can't we just strike when we want to? The whole planning the strike and alerting the media thing kinda takes away the shock value of what it would be like to have no teachers. Don't you think taxpayers would wake up if all of a sudden parents had to pay fair wages to daycare services for weeks on end until we can get, maybe HALF that wage? Well, not you, I understand your son goes to private school.

Yes, I understand you are a busy man and that Governor Locke is having you over for some fund raising thing, but I do believe my union dues are sufficiently paying for this time.

What? Oh, I see, you have to go talk to the Governor about what he can do about the current education crisis.

OK, well, why don't you go ahead and do that; meanwhile, we'll be striking.

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