{"id":1174,"date":"2014-09-10T22:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2014-09-11T21:50:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T04:50:49","slug":"bced-teachers-vote-99-4-to-binding-arbitration-ubc-bcpoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2014\/09\/10\/bced-teachers-vote-99-4-to-binding-arbitration-ubc-bcpoli\/","title":{"rendered":"#BCed teachers vote 99.4% to binding arbitration #ubc #bcpoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1175\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/files\/2014\/09\/FINALvote-result-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"FINALvote-result\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/files\/2014\/09\/FINALvote-result-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/files\/2014\/09\/FINALvote-result.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time Government makes at least one move,&#8221; BCTF President Jim Iker pleaded as he announced that an overwhelming 99.4% of teachers voted &#8220;Yes to binding arbitration&#8221; today to end the strike.<\/p>\n<p>The BC Government remains entrenched, with the Minister of Finance\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mike de Jong flippantly commenting on the CBC this morning that &#8220;the only people bound in binding arbitration are the tax payers.&#8221;\u00a0Ah, the dreaded\u00a0bogey of the tax hike&#8230;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bctf.ca\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like de Jong, the\u00a0BC Minister of Education Peter Fassbender has been faced squarely looking into the past. Or most would say stuck in the past. Again, nearly every blog has to end this way:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #292f33;\">As<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0NDP Leader John Horgan put it at the BC Fed-BCTF Rally on Friday:\u00a0\u201cMr. Fassbender I say you failed at negotiation, you don\u2019t understand mediation, you couldn\u2019t spell arbitration, so how about resignation?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time Government makes at least one move,&#8221; BCTF President Jim Iker pleaded as he announced that an overwhelming 99.4% of teachers voted &#8220;Yes to binding arbitration&#8221; today to end the strike. The BC Government remains entrenched, with the Minister &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2014\/09\/10\/bced-teachers-vote-99-4-to-binding-arbitration-ubc-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":[406501,2409,406529,635,2262,406528,2273,4069,2275],"tags":[617412,1469,1063365,1063374,1063379,1063389,406550],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bc-education","category-contracts","category-disputes","category-government","category-k-12-issues","category-strikes-labor","category-students","category-teachers","category-unions","tag-bc-education-2","tag-bctf","tag-government","tag-k-12-issues","tag-students","tag-teachers","tag-unions-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","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=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}