{"id":26301,"date":"2014-09-19T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=26301"},"modified":"2014-09-18T20:21:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T12:21:03","slug":"its-decision-day-in-b-c-teachers-labour-dispute-with-provincial-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/19\/its-decision-day-in-b-c-teachers-labour-dispute-with-provincial-government\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s decision day in B.C. teachers\u2019 labour dispute with provincial government"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11555\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BC-teachers-strike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11555\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BC-teachers-strike.jpg\" alt=\"BC Teachers' Strike \/ Twitter photo\" width=\"541\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BC-teachers-strike.jpg 541w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BC-teachers-strike-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BC Teachers&#8217; Strike \/ Twitter photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER\u2014More than half a million pubic-school students in British Columbia should know by the end of the day whether they\u2019ll be heading back to class as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p>The B.C. Teachers\u2019 Federation is asking its more than 40,000 members to ratify a new collective agreement with the provincial government and is expected to release the results of the vote tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Study sessions will be held this morning for members so they can learn more about the proposed six-year deal and ask questions.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed contract includes a 7.25 per cent salary increase, improvements in extended health benefits and the teaching-on-call rate, an education fund to address class size and composition issues, and money to address retroactive grievances.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria teacher Tara Ehrcke says she\u2019s very disappointed and if the contract is ratified teachers will be saying Yes to conditions that aren\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n<p>Labour lawyer Ritu Mahil says if the union\u2019s leaders think it\u2019s a good deal then members should take that recommendation seriously, and the deal was probably the best they could get at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER\u2014More than half a million pubic-school students in British Columbia should know by the end of the day whether they\u2019ll &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301","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=26301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}