Social pendulums swing back and forth.

"teachers are fully mobilized, and are not faced with the disheartening spectacle of scabbing colleagues"

Yeah - think about it! What with the working conditions and pay, who would be stupid enough to want to scab against teachers? And then there's the bloody kids, nasty little trouble makers too... :-)

The Right Wingers may have blown this one, they may be too stupid to realise that teachers can;t just be rapidly replaced by any desperate unemployed untrained idiot off the street...