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Schools: Phase one of strike plan would include restricting hours, supervision. By Tom Fletcher bLack Press
VICTORIA – After rejecting an offer from the school district bargaining agency for a long-term contract, the B.C. Teachers’ Federation went to the Labour Relations Board this week to establish essential service levels for strike action. BCTF members voted 89 per cent in March to endorse a threestage strike plan that can begin with 72 hours notice. Phase one includes restricting communication with school managers, arriving no more
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n Paramedics and police lift a woman into a BC Air Ambulance after she was struck by an eastbound car while crossing the Trans-Canada Highway at 50th Street SW on Wednesday morning. She sustained severe injuries, and was taken to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. Witnesses at the scene told police the woman walked into the path of traffic. The driver of the vehicle was uninjured, but is receiving support from RCMP Victims Services. The condition of the pedestrian was unknown at press time. The investigation is still ongoing.
than an hour before and leaving an hour after school hours, and refusing supervision of students outside class time. It does not affect pre-arranged voluntary activities such as coaching, but the refusal of supervision requires essential service levels that compel some teachers to assure the safety of students while they are out of classes. Peter Cameron, chief negotiator for B.C.’s 60 school districts, said there are some rural schools with no management staff to supervise
playgrounds. Typically it is the employers’ association that seeks an essential services order, but this time the BCTF applied. That’s unusual for a union that has a history of opposing essential service orders at the LRB and the International Labour Organization, Cameron said. It is also a sign that the BCTF is preparing for strike action after the Easter break. Cameron said if stage one strike action begins, the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association will seek an order that the union pay
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for its extended benefits during any withdrawal of service. That would cost about $5 million a month for 41,000 public school teachers. “In order that there is in fact pressure on both sides, BCPSEA needs to respond to any phase one activities with measures that put corresponding pressure on the union,” Cameron wrote in a letter to BCTF president Jim Iker. Cameron’s initial offer is for a 10year agreement with pay increases See A full-scale strike on page 2
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