Mr. Clarke After Dark
Welcome to the “Mr. Clarke After Dark” podcast with host Lucas Clarke, an educator determined to move away from recycled professional development and engage in more nuanced, personable, and relevant conversations for learning.
Each week, Mr. Clarke unpacks the inner workings of the classroom and learns out loud with educators, politicians, comedians, and other field experts of all shapes, sizes, and burnout levels. Whether they have been in the trenches of their profession for five months or fifty years, we are here to share everything from classroom hacks, our worst mistakes, and the occasional profound musing (from the guests). From conversations about race with Daryl Davis, education reform with Jennifer Gonzalez, global educational development with professors from the World Bank, to stories about students farting in class, there will always be something you can take away from the show, for better or worse.
So, come on over and join the dark side ... unless you’re scared.
Mr. Clarke After Dark
#064 - Danielle Danis | The Fort McMurray Educational Support Staff Strike & The Path Forward
Danielle Danis is currently an Educational Assistant and President of CUPE Local 2559 which represents more than 500 members in the Fort McMurray area. Much has taken place with their strike processes over the past six months and in this episode, we go deep into the negotiation timeline, the recent moves made by Danielle Smith to force them back into work, comments made by trusted leaders in the community degrading their position and how they have responded, how the wages for EAs and Custodians ends up being less than minimum wage when averaged out to a normal forty hour week, who the organization directly negotiates with and their justification for not budging, what the options are moving forward, and the implications their experience has for other unions renegotiating their agreements in the future, and, as always, much more. While we do discuss a lot about the minute details of the unionization process, it is around the 39 minute mark where we explore the explicit details relating to the recent events in the Fort McMurray situation. Thank you for tuning in and I hope you enjoy the show.
Thoughts shared on the podcast are purely our own and do not represent the views of the Anglophone South School District or the relevant jurisdictions associated with my guests.
