I will survive

Dear sir:
After my first year of teaching at Fort Frances High School, I was fired because the principal and the chairman of the board were afraid I might quit. When I tell people about this, they always comment on the absurdity of such thinking.
However, during the last 30 years, I have been assured this could no longer happen because we now have collective agreements and boards, principals, and teachers have learned to sit down together and solve problems.
They tell me that negotiating legal agreements guaranteeing fair and equitable treatment for all means that we cannot be fired without just cause.
All that was probably true before Mike Harris was elected and Janet Ecker became minister of education. Now I discover that if Bill 74 is passed, my collective agreement means nothing. My workload must increase, I can be told to do any extra-curricular activity assigned, I can be assigned duties at any time (24 hours per day, seven days per week) and if I refuse, I can be fined $5,000 or fired.
So in my last year teaching, you may see me out coaching football. On the other hand, you may see my carrying a picket sign. Better yet, I can refuse to accept Janet’s assessment that I have been a useless, overpaid, lazy parasite for the last 30 years.
Go ahead, Janet. Investigate me! Fire me! I survived it the first time. I will survived it this time.
Joyce Cunningham