{"id":1171,"date":"2014-09-10T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2014-09-10T20:26:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T03:26:26","slug":"bc-public-sector-unions-in-solidarity-with-bctf-bced-bcpoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2014\/09\/10\/bc-public-sector-unions-in-solidarity-with-bctf-bced-bcpoli\/","title":{"rendered":"BC public sector unions in solidarity with #BCTF #bced #bcpoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bcfed.ca\/public-sector-unions-tell-premier-clark-we-stand-in-solidarity-with-teachers\/\" target=\"_blank\">BC Federation of Labour<\/a>, September 9, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">BC public sector unions are sending a message to the Premier that they stand in solidarity with BC teachers and are urging her to accept the proposal for binding arbitration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201cThe Premier is attempting to use other settlements in the public sector to create a divide among workers in the province,\u201d said Jim Sinclair, President of the B.C. Federation of Labour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201cThis tactic is not only an insult to working people in BC, but it also shows how little the Premier understands and respects the collective bargaining process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">A letter, signed by the presidents of BC\u2019s largest public sector unions, states their full support for BC teachers and reminds the Premier that every bargaining table is unique and every process to settlement different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">The letter states: \u201cWe urge you to immediately stop attributing your refusal to bargain critical issues with teachers because you want to be \u2018fair to other public sector workers.\u2019 If you want to be fair to all public sector workers, send the outstanding issues to binding arbitration as proposed by the BCTF and remove E80 from the bargaining table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201cOur unions stand in solidarity with BC teachers in their efforts to win a fair collective agreement and improve educational resources for BC\u2019s children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcfed.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1520-14let-pub-sector-open-ltr-bctf-premier.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read full letter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC Federation of Labour, September 9, 2014 BC public sector unions are sending a message to the Premier that they stand in solidarity with BC teachers and are urging her to accept the proposal for binding arbitration. \u201cThe Premier is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2014\/09\/10\/bc-public-sector-unions-in-solidarity-with-bctf-bced-bcpoli\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406501,635,2262,2265,406528,2273,6230,2275],"tags":[617412,1469,1063365,1063374,2272,1063379,1063389,2276],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bc-education","category-government","category-k-12-issues","category-organizing","category-strikes-labor","category-students","category-teach-ins","category-unions","tag-bc-education-2","tag-bctf","tag-government","tag-k-12-issues","tag-strikes-labor-disputes","tag-students","tag-teachers","tag-working-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}