Delegates to CUPE’s national convention representing 540,000 CUPE members today voted unanimously to support the BC Teachers’ Federation in its ongoing dispute with the provincial Liberal government.
The resolution, a response to Monday’s announcement of Bill 12 (Teachers’ Collective Agreement Act), commits the national union, its BC division and the Hospital Employees’ Union (the health services division of CUPE in B.C.) to undertake “whatever actions deemed necessary” to provide the BCTF with all the support it requests.
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BC teachers have given their negotiating committee an 88 per cent mandate to initiate job action in a province-wide strike vote. Planned strike action is aimed at pressuring the employer and the government to negotiate a new collective agreement. Teachers have worked without a contract since the last one expired in June of 2004.
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