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How to Fix Teacher Bargaining? Ideas from Past BCTF Heads
Years of failed negotiations offer government solutions, say former union leaders. If you need proof that history repeats itself, look no further than the contract negotiations between the provincial government and the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. Since the New Democratic Party government pushed bargaining from the local to provincial level in 1995, there’s only been one successfully negotiated […]
Teachers warn of new job action including full shutdown: ‘Our members are angry,’ BCTF president says
The B.C. Teachers’ Federation has warned the Liberal government to radically change its approach to public education or face more protests by teachers, including the possibility of a provincewide shutdown of public schools. “Our members are angry,” union president Susan Lambert told a news conference a day after she was re-elected to head the organization […]
How My Teaching Has Changed
It is easy to talk about what could be, what should be and what other people could do. Instead, I would like to share what I have done, and what we are trying to do, as we engage in and embrace this learning evolution. I began my career trying to emulate the teachers I remembered most, and through the […]
Hunger Games fans switch arenas from page to screen
What is it about The Hunger Games that has made it the hottest teen fiction series since Harry Potter and Twilight? We went to the source and found three avid and articulate fans — ages 17 to 74 — to tell us. They love Suzanne Collins’ best-selling dystopian trilogy about a future dictatorship in which […]
Susan Lambert wins election, stays BCTF president
The BC Teachers’ Federation executive committee elections this morning saw incumbent President Susan Lambert keep her position, beating out challenger Rick Guenther by 429 votes to 238. Lambert, a teacher librarian who began her teaching career in Prince Rupert in the early 1970s, has been president of the teachers’ union since 2010. Lambert ran as […]
Opinion: B.C. Liberals want nothing less than a makeover of the education system
By Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun March 12, 2012 VICTORIA – As the legislature entered the sixth day of debate on Bill 22, the B.C. Liberals wielded their legislative majority to cut off debate on one of the most controversial aspects of the legislation, the form of mediation that will be used in the teachers’ contract dispute. […]
Teachers to plan anti-Bill 22 measures Sunday
The legislature gave final approval Thursday to the controversial Bill 22 and it will become law Saturday. That’s the same day teacher activists from around the province will gather in Vancouver for the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) annual general meeting at the Hyatt Regency. The main business at this year’s meeting will be crafting a response to Bill 22 that will […]
UBC may use Grade 11 transcripts to assess applicants
VANCOUVER SUN MARCH 13, 2012 The University of B.C. says it might use Grade 11 transcripts this year in assessing B.C. applicants who do not have a Grade 12 report card due to teacher job action. But it’s reassuring students who didn’t do as well last year as this year that Grade 11 marks will not […]
B.C. teachers promised more money for big classes
Bill 22 would give some teachers in primary grades $2,500 per student VANCOUVER — Public-school teachers are being promised financial compensation next year if they have extra-large classes. A controversial bill now working its way through the legislature would give Grades 4-7 teachers an extra $2,500 a year for every student beyond 30 in their […]
Constitutional and international law at risk under Bill 22
By Joel Bakan, Special to the Sun March 5, 2012 The B.C. Liberal government is poised, once again, to violate the legal rights of workers, this time with Bill 22, which, if it becomes law, will prohibit teachers from striking and limit their collective bargaining rights. In 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that […]