B.C. government faces ‘difficult balancing act’ as it grapples with multiple labour disputes

Premier John Horgan answers questions during a news conference in the Hall of Honour, at B.C. Legislature, in Victoria, on Oct. 7, 2019.The British Columbia government faces a “difficult balancing act” in dealing with labour strife among public-sector unions representing bus drivers in Metro Vancouver, teachers around the province, support staff on Vancouver Island and faculty members at a university in the north, a labour expert says.

The former government also stripped teachers of contract provisions in 2002, leading to years of acrimony between the two sides and a provincewide strike that had students out of school for five weeks in 2014. The B.C. Public School Employers’ Association says the top court also ruled parties have the right to negotiate class size and composition and school boards maintain the old language is out of date.

Leslie Remund, executive director of the 411 Seniors Centre Society, said a potential transit strike is a “huge” concern because 90 per cent of the elderly people who drop in for services are dependent on buses to get around. “There was a lot of organizing at work or trying to pick up somebody at the corner or something like that.”

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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