3.5% wage increase deal prevents BC Teachers from striking, for now
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[quote]VANCOUVER -- Looming job action by 33,000 unionized school support staff in British Columbia has been averted with a tentative two-year contract.
The BC Public School Employers' Association and CUPE BC, which represents 27,000 of the workers, say a 3.5 per cent wage increase has been negotiated over the life of the deal.
It includes a one per cent boost retroactive to July 1, a 2.5 per cent increase on Feb. 1, 2014 and a final hike of half a per cent next May.
Read more: [url]http://bc.ctvnews.ca/tentative-deal-heads-off-looming-b-c-school-strike-1.1462380#ixzz2fSSvMo6o[/url][/quote]
In 2001 the liberal government listed teachers under an [B]essential service[/B], meaning that [B]they're not allowed to strike unless approved from the BC Labour relations board[/B]. What's been going on for the past few years is that BC teachers are trying to get a pay increase because they're really underpaid and overworked. The most they can strike is usually around a few days out of the month.
It's a big debate among the public too, people against the issue are saying that the teachers are just being greedy and that this will result in more cutbacks, which is a possibility. Others are saying that its unfair that they get such a high class size and low pay, especially when they feel their rights are being violated.
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