Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 25 No. 21 May 23, 2014
Market News
Inside Shuswap
A3 Going up
Gas companies balk at talk with city. Plus South Shuswap A8,9 Sports A31
Chase
A19 Lee Creek
Regional district OKs new designation. Plus Power outage set A21 What’s On A21
Ready for takeoff
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n Civilian instructor Sandy Wan, Flight Sgt. Brayden Koprowsky in cockpit, LAC Jayd Jansen and LAC Connor Read move out onto the runway in preparation for takeoff during two days of gliding exercises, hosted by the 222 Shuswap Royal Air Cadet Squadron, at the Salmon Arm Airport.
Teachers to strike Tuesday, May 27 By Tracy Hughes BLACK PRESS
The B.C. Teachers’ Federation plans to start one-day rotating strikes at schools around the province, rejecting the offer of a $1,200 signing bonus for an agreement by the end of the school year. In the North Okanagan-Shuswap school district, Tuesday, May 27 has been designated for the oneday strike. School District #83 superintendent Glenn Borthistle is advising parents to make alternate arrangements for their children. “As in the past when this kind of situation has
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occurred, parents will be advised to keep their students home on that day as classroom teachers will not be in attendance,” he said. In Chase, where schools fall under School District #73 Kamloops Thompson, teachers will strike on Wednesday, May 28. BCTF president Jim Iker said Tuesday the bonus doesn’t make up for the government’s wage offer of 6.5 per cent over six years. A simultaneous plan to cut teachers’ wages five per cent or more because of strike action is “just so disrespectful, so unnecessary, and we’ll be dealing with it at the Labour Relations Board,” Iker said. Unless there is some compromise on major issues, one-day strikes with picket lines will be
staged at one group of school districts in each of the first four days next week, with teachers returning to work across the province on Friday, May 30. Education Minister Peter Fassbender said the signing bonus and reducing the contract term from 10 years to six were significant efforts to move toward a settlement. “Unfortunately the announcement today says that the BCTF feels that disrupting classrooms, affecting children and their families is going to help to reach a settlement,” Fassbender told reporters in Vancouver. See Province on page 2
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