Mediated bargaining starts Monday for B.C. teachers

Aug 19, 2019 | 5:40 AM

VANCOUVER — Mediated bargaining resumes today for thousands of unionized teachers across B-C, as eight days of mediation are booked with the bargaining team for the B-C Public School Employers’ Association.

The president of the B-C Teachers Federation, Teri Mooring, says the focus will be on bargaining class size and composition, but wages are also a key issue. Mooring admits there’s a chance no deal will be reached before classes resume on September 3rd, but she insists that eight days is plenty of time to negotiate a new collective agreement.

Job action won’t disrupt the start of the school year, but what happens in September depends on how well the next two weeks of bargaining goes for thousands of unionized teachers.

Mediated bargaining starts Monday for B.C. teachers

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