A Labour Relations Board mediator’s advice has stated that: “Given that the current dispute is at the beginning of the school year, and given that the parties experienced a two-week withdrawal of services in October of 2005 without any evidence of ‘serious and immediate disruption to the provision of education programs,’ I conclude that teachers can withdraw from the classroom for at least two weeks without any services designated as essential”.
Brown’s recommendations are not a formal decision, but are intended as “guidance” to the parties and any adjudicator who may be assigned to the current case, who could choose to adopt Brown’s decision in whole, in part or not at all, should the job action escalate.
No actual strike is currently planned, but these recommendations will be taken into consideration as the job action progresses.
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B.C. students could be forced out of their classrooms for two weeks or longer if the teachers’ labour dispute escalates and a Labour Relations Board mediator’s advice is followed.
“Given that the current dispute is at the beginning of the school year, and given that the parties experienced a two-week withdrawal of services in October of 2005 without any evidence of ‘serious and immediate disruption to the provision of education programs,’ I conclude that teachers can withdraw from the classroom for at least two weeks without any services designated as essential,” mediator Mark Brown wrote in his recommendations.
Brown’s recommendations are not a formal decision, but are intended as “guidance” to the parties and any adjudicator who may be assigned to the current case, who could choose to adopt Brown’s decision in whole, in part or not at all, should the job action escalate.
“Should we — and I hope we don’t need to — escalate, then we will have to return to the labour relations board and get an adjudication on how much we can escalate, or cannot,” British Columbia Teachers’ Federation president Susan Lambert said, adding that teachers do not have a time frame for escalation.
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