So well said!
The teachers are on strike again? It seems as if they go on strike every year and make our kids lose school days.
Actually, they don’t. Never mentioned, in headline or media, is that since 2001, B.C.’s Liberal government has caused the loss of many more school days than the B.C.T.F ever could.
One media outlet, not untypically, screamed;
“3 strikes, 14 school days lost since 1995, because of the B.C.T.F., one of B.C.’s most “militant” unions.”
While it’s true that teacher strikes resulted in the loss of 14 school days since 1995, such headlines are inexcusably misleading and inflammatory.
Teachers had the right to strike from 1987 to 2002 when the government declared Education an Essential service, outlawed strikes, and removed working conditions from the collective bargaining process.
Ten of the 14 aforementioned lost school days resulted from a single strike in 2005, a strike in response to…
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Shawn L. Bird 
It’s tough when the opponent plays the media like a violin. In the U.S., the conservatives are no better than the liberals when it comes to funding education. I don’t know if that’s true in BC, but I’m sure the government would love to bust the union.
It’s fascinating that the gov’t is free to announce whatever it wants to say about what’s on the table, and the teachers are not allowed to do so. There are SO many things that people would be shocked about, and we’re not allowed to share them with the media. Censorship is alive and well! (We call it ‘bargaining in good faith’ but since they’ve been charged several times for not playing by the rules, I do wonder why we are being so scrupulous about doing so. Our sanctity is just getting us martyred by the misinformed. >>sigh<<