The UCP is short-circuiting democracy. They’re supposed to be elected to represent the people. Their role is to carry the constitution and the legal protections afforded within. But here, the government is acting in bad faith.
They’re not negotiating with the teachers. There may even be good grounds to suggest that the government never intended to negotiate in good faith because they contemplated the use of the NWC.
By invoking the NWC, as you say, the UCP are not pushing parties to further negotiations or arbitration. They’re just telling the teachers and the students that you have no rights, you have no other choice, and there’s no option to go to court.
The UCP have committed an affront to freedom of expression, and collective bargaining across the country. There may not be any other logical choice but to strike.
I’ll acknowledge that this is probably a conspiracy I come back to and it goes along these lines:
Crypto has mostly replaced drugs as the primary core for money laundering.
In my opinion, bitcoin didn’t really hit the scene until around 2012 when miners were moving from their home built GPU rigs to specialized ASICs.