{"id":16618,"date":"2014-06-23T16:16:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T08:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16618"},"modified":"2014-06-23T16:16:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T08:16:47","slug":"veteran-mediator-declines-to-help-end-teachers-strike-in-british-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/23\/veteran-mediator-declines-to-help-end-teachers-strike-in-british-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran mediator declines to help end teachers strike in British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16630\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/classroom-education.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16630\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/classroom-education.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/classroom-education.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/classroom-education-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/classroom-education-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; A veteran mediator has turned down a request to try to settle British Columbia&#8217;s teachers strike.<\/p>\n<p>B.C. Teachers Federation spokesman Rich Overgaard says Vince Ready did not have time in his schedule to mediate the dispute between educators and the government.<\/p>\n<p>Overgaard says educators will meet tonight to discuss other possible mediators.<\/p>\n<p>Ready is widely considered one of Canada&#8217;s top labour troubleshooters and the teachers union put his name forward as someone who could move things forward.<\/p>\n<p>Pay and class size are among the sticking points in the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The strike started last week and meant no class for more than a half million students.<\/p>\n<p>Classes were due to wind down this week in most schools in B.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; A veteran mediator has turned down a request to try to settle British Columbia&#8217;s teachers strike. B.C. Teachers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":16630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[632,5842,3878,5841],"class_list":["post-16618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","tag-bc","tag-mediation","tag-teachers-strike","tag-vince-ready","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}