[9] The BCTF is restrained for 30 days from directly or indirectly using its assets to facilitate breach of the court order of October 6, 2005. In particular, the BCTF is enjoined from paying amounts to its members as “strike pay” or to otherwise compensate members for loss relating to breach of the order of October 6, 2005; from providing guarantees or promises to pay to protect members from such losses; from using its books records and offices to permit third parties to facilitate continuing breach of the court order. Either party may apply to extend or shorten this order.

[10] I am appointing a monitor to ensure that this order is obeyed. The monitor will have the following powers and duties:

(a) to have full access to all books and records of the BCTF, including all bank accounts of the BCTF and related entities;

(b) to review, on a daily basis, all payments made by the BCTF and related entities;

(c) to immediately report to the Court any payment or other activity which the monitor considers to be in breach of this order;

(d) to report to the court as requested with respect to the financial position of the BCTF and its compliance with this order;

(e) to appoint legal counsel as required and to obtain such assistance from time to time as the monitor may consider necessary in respect of its powers and duties.

A full text version of the Supreme Court Ruling can be found here.

Sunday’s ruling of contempt can be found here.

See also, CBC Coverage.

Judge orders B.C. teachers’ union to stop strike pay for illegal walkout

Steve Mertl
VANCOUVER (CP) – A B.C. Supreme Court judge rejected demands to levy heavy fines for an illegal strike by the province’s teachers Thursday, opting instead to handcuff the union’s ability to pay pickets.

Justice Brenda Brown essentially took control of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation’s assets and cash for 30 days to ensure neither union funds nor third-party donations can be used to pay strikers their $50-a-day picket pay.

Brown said the federation could still fund day-to-day business operations and its legal expenses but appointed a monitor to oversee the 38,000-member union’s finances to make sure her order is obeyed.

In a 2 1/2-hour hearing, a lawyer for the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association demanded the federation face significant and escalating fines for blatantly defying Brown’s weekend contempt-of-court ruling after the union went on strike Friday.

The B.C. Labour Relations Board ordered them back to work as the provincial legislature passed a law extending the teachers’ current contract until next June with no wage increase.

But federation president Jinny Sims said teachers would stay out of the classroom until the government negotiated a deal.