BC teachers may be ratchetting up the pressure on Victoria by holding a province-wide strike vote next week but that’s not going to deter them continuing their unpredictable rotating strikes.
BCTF President Jim Iker has announced rotating strikes will continue next week but the days that schools are affected appear to be different this time from last. All four schools in Revelstoke will be picketed on Friday, June 13. During the last two rotating strike days they were out on Tuesdays.
Of course, the rotating strikes do not mean a full-scale strike will not occur in the near future. The union is conducting a strike vote on Monday and Tuesday, June 9 and 10.
“BC teachers remain committed to negotiating a fair and reasonable deal that provides better support for our students,” Iker said in a statement. “It’s time for Premier Christy Clark to provide the employer with new funding that will help bring the two sides closer together on class size, composition, staffing levels for specialist teachers, and wages.”
The planned schedule of school closures (by school district name) is as follows:
Tuesday, June 10
61 — Greater Victoria
Wednesday, June 11
06 — Rocky Mountain
10 — Arrow Lakes
22 — Vernon
38 — Richmond
39 — Vancouver
40 — New Westminster
41 — Burnaby
44 — North Vancouver
45 — West Vancouver
46 — Sunshine Coast
48 — Sea to Sky
50 — Haida Gwaii
52 — Prince Rupert
54 — Bulkley Valley
58 — Nicola Similkameen
62 — Sooke
64 — Gulf Islands
67 — Okanagan Skaha
68 — Nanaimo
78 — Fraser-Cascade
79 — Cowichan Valley
92 — Nisga’a
Thursday, June 12
05 — Southeast Kootenay
20 — Kootenay Columbia
23 — Central Okanagan
27 — Cariboo-Chilcotin
28 — Quesnel
37 — Delta
42 — Maple Ridge
59 — Peace River South
69 — Qualicum
70 — Alberni
72 — Campbell River
74 — Gold Trail
75 — Mission
82 — Coast Mountains
83 — North Okanagan-Shuswap
84 — Vancouver Island West
87 — Stikine
91 — Nechako Lakes
Friday, June 13
08 — Kootenay Lake
19 — Revelstoke
33 — Chilliwack
34 — Abbotsford
35 — Langley
36 — Surrey
43 — Coquitlam
47 — Powell River
49 — Central Coast
51 — Boundary
53 — South Okanagan Similkameen
57 — Prince George
60 — Peace River North
63 — Saanich
71 — Comox
73 — Kamloops Thompson
81 — Fort Nelson
85 — Vancouver Island North
When it comes to the education of our children the public has an absolute right to demand better from teachers, elected officials of all kinds and the bureaucrats in Victoria.
If you’d like to register your anger and/or unhappiness over the current state of affairs please send an e-mail or a letter to:
Christy Clark
Premier of British Columbia
premier@gov.bc.ca
Mailing address:
PO BOX 9041
STN PROV GOVT
VICTORIA, BC,
V8W 9E1
Peter Fassbender
Minister of Education
educ.minister@gov.bc.ca
Mailing address:
PO BOX 9045
STN PROV GOVT
VICTORIA, BC,
V8W 9E2
Michael Marchbank
CEO of the BC Public School Employers’ Association
This is a generic e-mail as Marchbank is surrounded by minions but does not himself appear on the BCPSEA contact page, meaning he is virtually an invisible man.
contact.us@bcpsea.bc.ca
Mailing address:
400-1333 WEST BROADWAY,
VANCOUVER, BC, V6H 4C1
Jim Iker
President of the BC Teachers’ Federation
presidentsoffice@bctf.ca
Mailing address:
100 – 550 WEST 6th AVENUE,
VANCOUVER, BC, V5Z 4P2
Alan Chell
Chairman of School District 19 (Revelstoke)
This is Alan’s own e-mail address
achell@live.com
Mailing address:
PO BAG 5800
501 – 11th STREET EAST
REVELSTOKE, BC, V0E 2S0
