Well, I must say, that is one breath of fresh air that was needed. I really hope the BCTF doesn’t all complain at once. After all they have had a year to try and resolve this mess. Fire ’em, get new negotiators all around and lets have another kick at the cat shall we? And how bout we take that there demand for 10 days off for the death of a friend off the table. Play nice now, y’hear?

Got an email from from sister it said spent 3 days on strike packing and now enjoying 2 weeks in hawaii with a big lol at the end

Oh ya she knows how i feel about this :(

Got an email from from sister it said spent 3 days on strike packing and now enjoying 2 weeks in hawaii with a big lol at the end

Sad day for democracy. By the time this is sorted out in the courts, the BC Liberal Party will be no more and the new provincial leadership will have the unpopular job of cleaning up the mess.

Once again, the BC Liberals violate constitutional law and international law. Please, someone remind me what country we live in? I thought it was Canada, but I am not sure.

Read an article from UBC Law professor Joel Bakan regarding Bill 22 http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=6254820&sponsor=

This sums things up for me.

Welcome to the new era of education in B.C.. I’m sure glad my son is finished.

So Slim lets say there was no BCTF, just let the fibs unfettered access to do what ever they want with schools. You comfortable with that?

How is providing a bribe (increased pay to teachers that have a greater number of students than legislated) going to help the children in need?

These politicians are so morally corrupted that they are incapable of seeing or understanding anything except the mighty dollar.

This is why neo-liberalideolgically driven politicians are the worst possible choice to run anything from a hot dog stand to, god forgive, an entire country. Their vision is so completely liner towards their False God, money they are absolutely incapable of considering anything that might include a touch of humanity.

“The love of money is the root of all evil” Given this simple fact there are going to be a huge number of these morally defective politicians who are going to be judged so quickly by St. Peter that they are going to confuve Surberus for angels until their skin starts to burn.

A word to the politicians as a wise man said: I’d rather believe in a watchfull God and find out on my death that there is no god, than to go through life not believing in a vengefull god and finding out that there is a higher power” It’s not too late to fix the damage you have caused to our society and to at least hope for some salvation. But they won’t, they’ll continue on with their trust in the moneylenders over society and eventually reap the horrors that they have sown.

Jesus wept.

So the Liberals get to laugh in the face of a Supreme Court decision and then by Law create an abortion like Bill 22 and have it endorsed by Royal Accent none the less. What a travesty of justice what a diabolical infringement of Democracy.
Cristy Clark, George Abbot and the rest of the ilk in the Liberal party must be dumped before the next election date. The province must get up in arms and riot if necessary (nothing happens if you do anyhow just take the case of the Stanley Cup affair). This bill will affect ALL working class people in BC as the implications and ramifications of the Bill are hidden in the small print. Expect wages for all workers in BC union or none union to plunge as long as these lawbreakers are in power.
Then we have horses asses like Slim and his statement to fire them all as though there are another 41,000 educators ready to jump in and take over.
When your children are forced into schools owned and operated by for profit foreign interests everyone can be as stupid as Slim.
It is beyond me how the electorate can continue to vote these people in and bend over waiting for the next shot in the, you know where.
Farewell to Democracy my friend–FARWELL

I will post it once again;

“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This is not about the money, it is about your childs future. Your child will now have a future with NO negotiable options. Do not forget to send Christie your thank you letter.

What a bunch Drama Queens, “its the end of democracy”, blah blah….What we have here is a democratically elected government not being bullied by the bctf. I love it.

The inmates don’t run the asylum.

“The inmates don’t run the asylum. “

They’ve been trying to run it for as long as I can remember.

A democratically elected dictatorship is what you meant to say dow7500. The next time someone attempts to stand up for your rights under the Employment Standards Act or the Labour Relations Code, it is nice to know that you will remember your statements made about representative bargaining agents such as the BCTF. If you have any comprehension of economics you will understand that one torn up contract plus mandated net zero increases to follow for three years + annualized cost of living and inflation X 6 yrs, is equivalent to about a 16% wage rollback of your wages earned 6 years ago. Kind of sobering isn’t it, considering your class sizes have increased and your levels of support for learners with difficulties have been reduced.
So dow7500; if you love it, you must either be a bully yourself with no social conscience, or you are making a sad attempt at covering up the fact that you actually voted for this gang of thugs in Victoria.

What does he care, he sends his kids to private school.

How about the fact that Abbott expects the additional compensation (for classes over 30) to come from school district’s budgets? It was never meant to come from this learning improvement fund.
The last I heard, School District 57 was already having trouble making do with their allocated funds.
I am disappointed that this article leaves out many other conditions imposed by Bill 22, such as the removal of class size limits from grades K-3.
Excerpts from Bill 22

(B) deleting Article D.2 entitled “K-3 Primary Class Size”,

(c) limiting a board’s power to employ persons other than teachers to assist teachers in the carrying out of their responsibilities under this Act,

(3) There must not be included in a teachers’ collective agreement any provision
(a) regulating the selection and appointment of teachers under this Act, the courses of study, the program of studies or the professional methods and techniques employed by a teacher

http://www.leg.bc.ca/39th4th/1st_read/gov22-1.htm

The icing on the cake in all of this perhaps is that the contract that will be imposed on the teachers in six months, will only be valid until June 30, 2012.

A sad day indeed.

Slim2229 if you kept up with the demands then you would know that 10 days off for a friend was never on the table. You would also know that 10 days off for the death of a family member was withdrawn.

So do they go back to court again and get this bill classed as unconstitutional?

Next up

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/01/10/bc-bcgeu-contract-wages.html

And all the Faculty Associations of BC contracts are up again this year!

General Strike on the way.