No Ground Being Given In Either Side Of Teachers Dispute
Monday, March 5, 2012 @ 3:45 AM
There are no winners, no losers in the teachers walk out this week.
The teachers are seeking wage increases and the province is dug in that there will be no pay hikes in this contract.
The government has the legislature and the ability to flex its muscles by law, while the teachers are at liberty to strike (all be it only for a few days) as a means of trying to put the pressure on the government.
The students get a few extra days off, which they don’t mind. The many working parents of children find they are inconvenienced, in many cases with the result that the polls show exactly how the people feel in the matter. It is a dead heat.
No winners, no losers, well at least to this point.
The province is set to finalize legislation that will kill any walkout by the teachers and the penalties are such that the risk is too high to challenge the legislation.
The province is suggesting that some mediation can be conducted, but that will come under some very narrow terms which do not include raises but offers incentives to those teachers who take on extra students.
It is a repeat of the last event between teachers and the province and we can see by the present negotiations there really has been no major ground given by either side over the years.
I’m Meisner and that’s one man’s opinion.
Comments
Lets hope that the liberals are relected. Who else would want to clean up the mess and restore sanity to our government that they would be faced with. It appears we are powerless when it comes to restoe some sanity to our government thats ruleing us at the present time.
Cheers
Well I am unemployed and I am decidedly with the teachers. They had their signed contract torn up by the liberals and were held to no wage incre
The teachers are seeking a hell of a lot more than simple “wage increases”. Personally I’m all for giving them a small raise but I’d like to tell them to stuff their other demands. No one is worth what they think they are.
]Well I am retired and on a fixed income so I know just how the teachers feel. First of all I must say that I am decidedly on the teachers side of this dispute. The teachers have had their previous contract torn up by the liberal government eventhough it was a signed document. So the teachers need some catch up. That is not unreasonabled. The liberal government knows full well that BC has the least corporate tax in the world today so I say increase the corporate taxes and pay our teachers a much needed wage increase.
Retired are you serious, fib re elected? Who do think created this mess in the first place. With outstanding resources how did our economy get so bad?
The BC economy is the best it has been in years, Forestry, Coal Minning in the northeast, Minning, Minning exploration, Oil and Gas, fresh off the Olympic bonanza (Liberals told us that was an economic boon to the Province), are all operating flat out.
The problem is the BC Liberals are in a recession or maybe a depression. Our BC Liberals have taxed themselves right out of any income. The BC Liberal tax policy has deprived the Provionce an opportunity to generate any income for Victoria.
In fact this government should be flush with money, afterall we are still paying their beloved HST until 2013.
The BC Liberals are the absolute worst government in terms of management of money this Province has ever seen. A Province that is working on all cylinders but continues to be broke is a Province that has a serious management problem.
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