{"id":1181,"date":"2014-09-30T22:22:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2014-09-30T22:36:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T05:36:13","slug":"if-you-have-a-job-thank-a-bced-teacher-bctf-bcpoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2014\/09\/30\/if-you-have-a-job-thank-a-bced-teacher-bctf-bcpoli\/","title":{"rendered":"If you have a job, thank a #bced teacher #bctf #bcpoli"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BCEDRally\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you have a job, if you want a job, thank a teacher. And those of us who work in\u00a0British Columbia truly are indebted to the teachers. Not in some academic way; rather, we are indebted for the BC teachers’ \/\u00a0BCTF’s stand for workers’ rights, for fair bargaining rights, for the right to call into question the failures of employers and governments.<\/p>\n

If you don’t have a job, and more and more do not, thank the government and your local elected economist. The economy continues to fail and labour discontent\u00a0is increasing for good reasons.<\/p>\n

This particular teachers’\u00a0strike is over but more labour unrest is on the horizon in BC. Who’s next?<\/p>\n

Nurses, doctors, postsecondary educators and workers at major Crown corporations<\/a> including B.C. Hydro and the Insurance Corp. of B.C. are some of the public-sector workers who have not yet accepted the government\u2019s standard offer of 5.5-per-cent wage increases over five years.<\/span><\/p>\n

The public sector contracts that are still up in the air represent half of the workers, but they include some of the most expensive contracts, accounting for two-thirds of the government\u2019s $21-billion wage bill this year.<\/p>\n

That creates significant uncertainty for a B.C. budget that remains balanced on a razor\u2019s edge…<\/p>\n

\"Contract<\/a>Read More: Justine Hunter, Globe & Mail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have a job, if you want a job, thank a teacher. And those of us who work in\u00a0British Columbia truly are indebted to the teachers. Not in some academic way; rather, we are indebted for the BC teachers’ … Continue reading →<\/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":[406501,2409,635,2265,406528,2273,4069,2275],"tags":[617412,1469,1063365,1063379,1063389,406550],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bc-education","category-contracts","category-government","category-organizing","category-strikes-labor","category-students","category-teachers","category-unions","tag-bc-education-2","tag-bctf","tag-government","tag-students","tag-teachers","tag-unions-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","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=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}