http://globalnews.ca/news/1395550/negotiations-between-teachers-province-underway-tonight-no-school-monday/ Public school students across B.C. will not be in classrooms this morning [Monday] as negotiations continue between teachers and the government. The two sides bargained throughout the weekend at a downtown Vancouver hotel. Today, teachers are holding study sessions and a full scale strike could begin if a deal …
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http://www.vancouversun.com/business/teachers+begin+full+scale+strike+Tuesday+according+BCTF/9930208/story.html British Columbia’s teachers intend to launch a full-scale strike beginning next Tuesday, potentially keeping students across the province out of the classroom for the remainder of the school year. The B.C. Teachers’ Federation told its more than 40,000 members in an email Wednesday evening that the union planned to …
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BCTF @bctf #bced vote details. 33,387 teachers cast ballots (record turnout). 28,809 voted yes. 86% in favour of escalation, if needed. #bcpoli No notice of a full strike has been given as yet – rotating strikes to continue, for the time being.
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http://globalnews.ca/news/1381024/teachers-vote-may-not-prompt-immediate-strike/ …McQuarrie is expecting a successful vote, which she said gives union negotiators more leverage. Completely shutting down the workplace, however, she said would be the “last big thing” teachers could do. Charles Ungerleider, a former B.C. deputy minister of education, said he, too, doesn’t expect an affirmative vote will …
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http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/v8w6x6t BCCPAC is conducting a survey to gain feedback from PACs and parents about the current BC Public School Labour Dispute.
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http://www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2014/06/information-for-parents-on-the-bctf-strike.html With the possibility that the British Columbia Teachers Federation (BCTF) will start a full walk out on June 16, 2014, parents are concerned about whether their children will be able to write final exams, receive final report cards, and transition to the next grade or on to post-secondary. The …
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Note – June 13th appears to be a primary report card writing day for a number of schools in SD57: https://sd57dpac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2013-2014-Report-Card-Writing-Days.pdf The BCTF has released next week’s rotating strike schedule, with Friday, June 13th being the strike day for the Prince George school district: Tuesday, June 10 61—Greater Victoria Wednesday, …
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http://blogs.theprovince.com/2014/06/03/jacob-smith-b-c-public-school-students-are-like-kids-caught-up-in-a-nasty-divorce/ To say a dysfunctional relationship between two parents doesn’t affect the children would be an outrageous lie. The relationship between the BCTF and the province is very much the same and the effects are mostly felt by the students. http://www.theprovince.com/news/Michael+Smyth+Cooling+period+would+help+everyone+teachers+dispute/9900961/story.html Like all school kids and their parents, the school …
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The collective bargaining proposals can be found here: http://www.bcpsea.bc.ca/bc-teachers/teacher-collective-bargaining.aspx For example, the June 3rd class size proposal from the BCTF is here: http://www.bcpsea.bc.ca/documents/teacher%20bargaining/Proposals/U62%20Class%20Size.pdf In 2014 the class size maximums would be 20 for Kindergarten, 22 for grades 1-3, and 28 for grades 4-12. By 2016, the maximum for kindergarten would be 18, …
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