Midnight deadline passes for teachers to reach deals with school boards
Posted Jan 2, 2013 07:24:07 AM.
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Tory education critic Lisa MacLeod says the provincial government should have used Bill 115 to impose contracts on teachers unions and restored order in our public education system.
The legislation gave Education Minister Laurel Broten the power to impose deals yesterday if teachers hadn’t reached new contracts with their boards.
MacLeod says by ignoring their own law, the Liberals have emboldened union leaders who are threatening more strikes and instability when school returns next week.
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation says it will end rotating strikes to protest Bill 115 if Broten agrees not to impose new contracts on them until a new premier is selected later this month.
