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The BCTF is a dinosaur and this will be the last time they hold parents and children hostage. Times are changing. There are now many other ways to get education, and the ways are expanding.
The BCTF can rot in hell as far as I am concerned.
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They keep coming in.
Math is hard….
Did it involve firing half of them? After all, if it really is an education system as opposed to a radical leftist indoctrination system that is what should happen.
Don’t you mean “work” ?
I wish more governments would learn how to crush unions of government “workers” … all it takes is 2 (JUST TWO!) missed pay cheques and union solidarity starts crumbling very fast. That bit of labor wisdom came from my dear departed Dad, and ex-CUPE labor leader who understood just how far they could push.
These teachers missed only ONE pay (= Sept. 15th) and their second missed cheque would have been Sept. 30th … by October 1st the BC government would have had them over a barrel, but politicians didn’t have the courage to keep saying “NO!” until their tongues bled, and now the teachers have won more money, more perqs, more days off, and smaller class sizes.
The details have no been released yet but I bet the teachers lost here. Until we hear more we really don’t know.
I got sacked by the BCTF/local union after refusing to sign up some 25 years ago. I had been offered a continuing contract as a brand new teacher, but walked away and ‘re-invented’ myself as a financial planner, after a lost legal contretemps with the local labor relations board. I view my silver anniversary of being fired by them as a ‘badge of honour’.
My son recently earned his teacher certification, and found a job opening in a private school for more money than the union dominated system, the day he graduated.
I can only smile with quiet satisfaction that the BCTF/union deserve themselves.
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Perverseness of heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.
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You mean they weren’t fired?
I haven’t heard the results of this whole charade yet but one things for sure the Unions will get pretty much everything they were demanding with a few exceptions. The whole thing was a hustle and in the predetermined end the Unions will get what they demanded and the Government will tell the taxpayer that “this was a good deal”… all bullshit of course. The taxpayer will continue to be raped by the Government and the immorality of public sector unions and the coerced theft of taxpayer dollars will continue. Nice con game though.
Perhaps these spoiled babies will think k twice before they do another strike. I am anxious to see what’s in the deal. I’ll bet it’s ugly.
I doubt the government surrendered. They gave parent $40 a day during the strike. The union caved no question.
Cant wait for the Govt to announce Charter Schools in BC. Unbelievable some of the teachers comments, hate that they try to program progressive thinking into my child. I have taught him the value of large displacement engines.
Whenever a group strikes too much, you know they are on their way out. There are no more milk deliveries (you buy eggs, milk, cream in the store) and drywall was invented in the late 50’s because of all the strikes by the plasterer (sp?) union. This is happening with Canada Post and it is happening with public teachers. I cannot remember Catholic teachers going on strike(if they have, please feel free to enlighten me). Charter and private schools are the way of the future.
It would be nice to think this is the strike the ends all future strikes, but since 1987 the BCTF have gone on strike 50 times with 3 job actions. In their 27 years they have only managed to negotiate one contract with no job action. The only way teachers know how to negotiate a contract is to grab a kid and hold them hostage.
I beg to differ. The only thing the gov got, was a 6 year contract and he!d the line on the wage and benefits.
Teachers STILL get signing bonus of $2600 each(!) And controlnof a multimillion dollar fund for staff increases, and als will getbtheir day inncourt.
Christy sold out.
Let’s have a libertarian moment here and advocate a system of all private schools, lower taxes as a result, and may the best system(s) win. If some parents would prefer a system that hires only conservatives who only teach sensible stuff (I know, sounds almost like a time machine would be required) then perhaps this would not only solve the budgetary problems but also the Low Information Voter problems that create the former.
Those teachers, gotta love ’em, saving the earth one delusion at a time. And conveniently for them, BC is the one place in Canada where one could talk about global warming in 2014 without sounding like an escaped mental patient.
We already have them.