{"id":8694,"date":"2012-03-05T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T23:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2012-03-05T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T23:22:39","slug":"b-c-teachers-strike-indecisive-government-gives-teachers-union-the-upper-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/03\/b-c-teachers-strike-indecisive-government-gives-teachers-union-the-upper-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. teachers strike: Indecisive government gives teachers\u2019 union the upper hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Province: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/business\/teachers+strike+Indecisive+government+gives+teachers+union+upper+hand\/6237164\/story.html#ixzz1oHsVAcFF\">B.C. teachers strike: Indecisive government gives teachers\u2019 union the upper hand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a few days ago, Premier Christy Clark was all gung-ho to cut the teachers off at the pass and stop their strike before it even began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make sure kids don\u2019t lose a day of school,\u201d Clark said, while insisting she wanted to declare the strike illegal before it started by rushing a back-to-work bill through the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope we get this legislation in place before we see any further job action in any public schools in British Columbia,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>That was Tuesday. Then the government morphed from tigers into pussy-cats.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, education minister George Abbott said he \u201crespects\u201d the teachers\u2019 decision to go on strike and the government will not move aggressively to stop it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Province: B.C. teachers strike: Indecisive government gives teachers\u2019 union the upper hand Just a few days ago, Premier Christy Clark was all gung-ho to cut the teachers off at the pass and stop their strike before it even began. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/03\/b-c-teachers-strike-indecisive-government-gives-teachers-union-the-upper-hand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2272],"tags":[1469,115,1288951,1288960],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strikes-labor-disputes","tag-bctf","tag-british-columbia","tag-k-12-issues","tag-strikes-labor-disputes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8696,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/8696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}