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Elementary and secondary school students across B.C. are anticipated to be back in class as soon as next week. Although tentative deal was reached between the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the province on early Tuesday, it is yet to be endorsed by the teachers.
Nanaimo District Teachers’ Association president, Mike Ball, confirmed that the vote among the teachers is scheduled to take place today on Sept. 18, with results available tonight around 9 p.m. The deal recommended by the union is set to last until 2019, while retroactively applying back to July 2013. According to an e-mail from the union to its membership, the deal includes a salary increase of 7.25 per cent over the six-year length of the contract and a $105-million fund to address grievances related to class size and composition. Furthermore, it was clarified that class size and composition language have been removed from the teachers’ contracts in 2002, which the union fought in court. However, the B.C. government is still appealing two previous court decisions in favor of the teachers.
Ball stated that “the government is going to carry on … so if the agreement is ratified, it means that when the court case is done, that the two sides will re-open negotiations on the stripped provisions, which is basically class size and composition and the related articles, and they will start from whatever the court case says is the appropriate position, which should be the 2002 language.” Additionally, Ball warned that pickets would continue until a new deal is approved.
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