Education Support Staff Have Deal with Province
Prince George, B.C. – On the eve of teaches in B.C. taking a vote on whether or not they will ramp up their job action to a full scale walkout, comes news the education support staff, represented by CUPE have developed a framework agreement with the Province.
While details of the agreement have not yet been released, the Province says it covers a 5 year term from July 1, 2014 through to June 30th 2019.
The news release from the Province says the framework agreement "provides for wage increases in keeping with the Economic Stability Mandate over the five years of the term, with potential for additional increases if the B.C. economy exceeds the annual forecasts set by the Economic Forecast Council during the last four years of the agreement."
The terms will have to be ratified by union members and the BCPSEA board before it can take effect.
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Just another embarrassment for the BCTF.
They must be getting used to being embarrassed by now. How could you be anything but embarrassed when you keep electing clowns like Jim Iker as your President?
Seriously, the best that the BCTF can do is elect Iker as President? This from the same group of people that thought Adrian Dix would make a terrific leader of the NDP and would become the next Premier of our Province!
I wonder what this next week will bring? Perhaps Iker will be out organizing bottle drives in order to help bolster the BCTF Strike Fund?
Bottle Drives, coming to a neighbourhood near you!!
CUPE just came off 2 years at 3.5%. If BCTF is to follow the “pattern” then why is that not the starting point? Governments current offer starts with a 4th zero in a row for TF. Going with the 5.5% over 5 years pattern that HEU and CUPE took, and giving the TF the same 3.5% over 2 everyone else got before this and adding it retroactively to the zeros is actually fair based on the pattern. So how about 9% over 5 years? Could Johnny and Hart Guy live with that logic?
Not to mention no one else’s “pattern” has included 10 (now 6) year contracts, and concessions around post and fill, sick leave, and a new salary grid for any new teacher entering the profession. The teachers will not sell out the new teachers and put them on a separate and lesser contract.
While I am here. The idea that the government “moved” on their contract length is ridiculous. Going from a ridiculous 10 years and lowering it to 6 which would make it the longest BCTF contract ever, is not really moving.
Smooth, how has the BCTF amended their contract demands, other than the MASSIVE 1% drop in the wage demand? Are they still asking for 2 weeks off if any dog in their neighborhood passes away, and an extra 2 weeks if they actually knew the dog owner?
Hart Guy if you want to talk about embarrasment , lets start with Chrispie Clark , if that is not an embarrasment I have yet to see one .
Fedup2014, Christie Clark sure didn’t look very embarrassed during the last election campaign! Rather, she looked confident, self-assured, positive, upbeat and in spite of the pundits, more than ready to lay a major beating on poor Arian and his NDP Party!!
Did you notice how embarrassed poor Adrian Dix looked during his concession speech?
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