Shrugging off the government’s Pyrrhic victory in the BC teachers strike
On Monday, October 17, 20 000 teachers, union members and other supporters shut down the provincial capital of Victoria and marched on the legislature. Within 48 hours, it was clear that the teachers of British Columbia and their union, the BCTF, were on the verge of becoming victims of an institutionally driven betrayal of enormous proportions in terms of the size of the opportunity that was being squandered