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NP1970
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 Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:40 am Post subject: Great News 4 China's Foreign Teachers About Average Salaries |
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Now that the criminal background checks are in effect the CFTU and SAFEA confirm there are now over 7,100 fewer foreign teachers working in China this year than last. http://open.salon.com/blog/china_business_central/2013/09/11/cftu_reports_18_drop_in_esl_china_foreign_teachers_in_2013
So now we all have good reasons to ask for pay raises since there are far less of us to go around. I know this is an issue that really worries the admin people at my school so I am sure the concern is contagious. Time to take advantage in my opinion - strike while the iron is hot. I think we all have grounds to be demanding an extra 2,000 per month at the very least - especially those of us with education degrees and/or real teaching experience. |
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roadwalker
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| Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:54 am Post subject: Re: Great News 4 China's Foreign Teachers About Average Sala |
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| NP1970 wrote: |
Now that the criminal background checks are in effect the CFTU and SAFEA confirm there are now over 7,100 fewer foreign teachers working in China this year than last. http://open.salon.com/blog/china_business_central/2013/09/11/cftu_reports_18_drop_in_esl_china_foreign_teachers_in_2013
So now we all have good reasons to ask for pay raises since there are far less of us to go around. I know this is an issue that really worries the admin people at my school so I am sure the concern is contagious. Time to take advantage in my opinion - strike while the iron is hot. I think we all have grounds to be demanding an extra 2,000 per month at the very least - especially those of us with education degrees and/or real teaching experience. |
Hey friend, can you provide the reference for the SAFEA confirmation? I don't see anything in the open-to-anybody web posting site above. Perhaps something on the SAFEA website? Thanks in advance! |
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johntpartee
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Four misspellings and four grammatical errors in the article (at first glance; I'm sure an in-depth read would yield more). Difficult to afford them any credibility.
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| can you provide the reference for the SAFEA confirmation? |
That would be nice, even though SAFEA is little more than an advertisement to make foreign teachers think we have some rights here. |
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choudoufu
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vikeologist
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| So basically by SAEFA confirmation, you mean that someone you met once who said they worked for SEAFA hasn't got in touch with you to dispute a manufactured news story they don't know exists. |
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Bolt
Joined: 25 Sep 2013
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| Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| So basically by SAEFA confirmation, you mean that someone you met once who said they worked for SEAFA hasn't got in touch with you to dispute a manufactured news story they don't know exists. |
No my friend. That is not what I said. I said I am sending her an email with the link tonight and asking her to confirm the census results. If she still works there I think she will respond. If I don't hear back from her in a day or two I will call there and ask for her. IF I hear back from here I will post something accordingly.
BTW... do you really doubt loads of teachers have been leaving China? |
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vikeologist
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| Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Bolt wrote: |
| vikeologist wrote: |
| So basically by SAEFA confirmation, you mean that someone you met once who said they worked for SEAFA hasn't got in touch with you to dispute a manufactured news story they don't know exists. |
No my friend. That is not what I said. I said I am sending her an email with the link tonight and asking her to confirm the census results. If she still works there I think she will respond. If I don't hear back from her in a day or two I will call there and ask for her. IF I hear back from here I will post something accordingly.
BTW... do you really doubt loads of teachers have been leaving China? |
Getting one person from SAEFA to confirm a story means absolutely nothing.
Yes, I truly doubt that anybody, including SAEFA, knows how many foreign teachers there are in this country. I have no idea if there are less teachers. Does china have a census office? If not, what exactly can they go on; tax records? Virtually none of us are paying taxes. Job vacancies aren't logged centrally. How could anyone know?
I suppose that if SAEFA or someone kept track locally of how many invitation letters they're generating for foreign teachers, that would work, but only if there's an occupation code that they input when generating them, and it goes on to a central database. If this is the case, give us the raw data, or at the very least a member of the Chinese central government giving the figures to a Chinese government controlled media outlet. Of course even then we couldn't trust the figures, but we could trust them a lot more than we can trust you.
Explain to us how you get your figures. What is your sample size, and how do you ensure a representative sample? |
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Mr. Leafy
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| Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Perhaps they counted teachers in mid-September one year and in mid-August the next year and wow, suddenly there are less of us. |
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johntpartee
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| Who's "they"? SAFEA? CFTU? The Central Committee? |
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