Saskatchewan Teachers Vote No To New Deal
Prince George- 63 per cent of the Saskatchewan Teachers have voted to reject the latest proposed contract. The turnout was 98%.
The four year deal would have included a 7.3% pay increase, as well as a $700 dollar payment in the first year..
After the vote was announced , the Bargaining committee for the province, expressed disappointment.
Connie Bailey, speaking for the bargaining committee says, there is definitely a disconnect between the teachers, and the bargaining committee.
The teachers say, they will immediately apply for conciliation, a non binding process, where a third party is brought in to try to bridge the differences.
This is the second time in less than a year that the teachers have voted no to a tentative agreement in Saskatchewan .
Last October they voted no to a deal that would have given them a 5.5% increase, plus a one per cent lump sum payment.
Here in BC , the government has offered 7.25% over 6 years with a $1200.00 signing bonus. Teachers are asking for 15.9% over 4 years, with revisions to class size and composition.
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250 GET WITH THE PROGRAM, THE UNION IS ASKING 8% FOR FIVE AND A $5000 SIGNING BONUS
You forgot the retroactive pay and increased medical
Contract term
B.C. Teachersâ Federation: Five years (July 1, 2013 â June 30, 2018).
B.C. Public School Employersâ Association: Six years (July 1, 2013 â June 30, 2019) with the option of increasing to seven years to secure an additional wage increase.
Signing bonus
BCTF: $5,000
BCPSEA: $1,200
Wage increase
BCTF: 3.5 per cent in the first year, followed by 1.5 per cent a year for the following three years, for a total of 8 per cent, not compounded. The proposal also includes an additional increase equal to the difference between the actual and forecasted GDP.
BCPSEA: July, 2014: 1 per cent, February, 2015: 2 per cent, July, 2016: 1 per cent, July, 2017: 0.5 per cent, May, 2018: 1 per cent, July, 2018: 0.5 per cent, May, 2019: 1 per cent, for a total of 7 per cent, not compounded. The proposal also includes an Economic Stability Dividend â an automatic wage increase if the economy performs better than forecast â in four instalments. If the contract term is extended to seven years, teachers would get additional wage increases of 0.5 per cent in July, 2019 and 1 per cent in May, 2020.
Benefits
BCTF: Improvements to the extended health benefits plan such as $3,000 of massage therapy per year and the inclusion of fertility drugs. The BCTF is also seeking improvements to the dental plan, continuation of benefits for dependents 12 months after a teacherâs death, and for teachers on long-term disability to receive the same benefits coverage as those who are working, among other things.
BCPSEA: The employer is providing no details on benefits. Instead, it has proposed increasing benefit payments within the same limits as the salary increases. At the end of the contract, that would mean an extra pool of money worth $11-million, and how that gets distributed would be decided through a collaborative process involving both sides.
Pregnancy/parental supplemental employment benefits
BCTF: For mothers the union is looking to top up between EI and the employeeâs salary to 100 per cent for the first 17 weeks, then to 60 per cent for the remaining 35 weeks. The BCTF is asking for fathersâ salaries to be topped up to 100 per cent for the first two weeks, then 60 per cent for the additional 35 weeks.
BCPSEA: No details provided. Any changes to pregnancy and parental benefits would come from the same pool of money as the other benefits.
Class size and composition
BCTF: Establishment of a new Workload Fund (amount not specified) to be used for hiring new teachers. Teachers want the Supreme Court decision ordering a return to 2002 class-size and composition limits restored within their collective agreements.
BCPSEA: No change to current class-size limits. The governmentâs appeal of the B.C. Supreme Court ruling will proceed.
Here are the numbers broken down in a short video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJkx9Yz1p44&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Watch the whole thing, to get the correct information, do not watch just part of it!
We are trying to keep the public informed honestly, and not spin the facts into falshoods.
At forty dollars for an hour of massage that’s 65 for the year. If anyone needs 65 massages a year that would be me. I pay for this luxury out of my own pocket and so should the teachers , for the love of god this has gone right over the top. Very disappointed to read that .
Seriously are you guys not understanding how a negotiation process work,that’s just what they through on the table but the government is not negotiating back.
buzzing, that may be the case if your selling t-shirts on a Mexican beach. This is a group of professionals. This is where the bctf loses credibility. Teachers pay millions in dues and they have no strike fund and bargain like a street hawker. I’d be pissed if my $ were spent like that.
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