This time it's the teachers and the schoolboards, making a mockery of the ridiculous thousand year REI Co-Op.....errrrr...10 Year Educational Anschluss, by getting together, consulting, finding a middle ground, and making an actual deal rather than just photo-opshopping for the cameras.
Here's the MoCo's lede:
The BC Teachers' Federation and its direct employer have approved a new bargaining framework for the next round of contract negotiations.
Union President Susan Lambert says the new deal with the B.C. Public School Employers' Association allows for earlier bargaining and a facilitator to help negotiations.
Lambert said she thinks teachers are glad for some upbeat news, “after so many years of frustration and disappointment.”
“This particular understanding has really, really heartened teachers that maybe there is some compromise that can be made,” Lambert told CBC News Saturday.
The BCTF voted in favour on Staurday morning while the BCSPEA board gave it the thumbs up later in the day...
Meanwhile, in the comment threads to a previous post, Grant G, an Anon-O-Mouse and I have been discussing what the sudden unveiling of the ridiculous Anschluss late last week by the Wizards of Snooklandia was really (sorry Ian) all about Alfie...
The BCTF and the employer just nullified Christy Clark`s election gambit, her attempt to create a US VERSUS THEM pre-election..
The Teachers union, BCTF and the employer hammered out a negotiating framework..
The reason why Clark and her Liberal GANG brought this 10 year deal BS out now, because the BCTF was already smoothing out a negotiating framework..
The new negotiating deal means....It means Christy Clark` dropped another dud bomb, her proposal is now..NULL and VOID..
Grant--
So....
Do you reckon the Wizards of Snookland saw the denoument coming and tried to spike it with this ridiculous running of the 10 year stupidity up the flagpole as a deflector beacon...I mean imagine where this story would be going today without said beacon?
BC Liberals wanted to wait until the legislature opened or even delayed their scheme until the writ was dropped.
Intel tells me that the Government got wind , got wind that the two sides were going to come to terms..They had to move fast, failed anyway..
Sheesh, that`s funny.."Government got wind"!
Now that`s an understatement!
So.
It is true...The stupid deflector beacon atop the flagpole has been plastered all over an event of actual significance, and the fine folks at Global were only too happy to be the perpetrators of the plastering?
Also on that particular thread....A good discussion with Merv Adey and Mr. Beer 'N Hockey about what might happen to the influence of local proMedia pundits when the subscription pay walls go back up for real...More on that topic later.
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