{"id":8766,"date":"2012-03-13T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8766"},"modified":"2012-03-13T12:19:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T20:19:03","slug":"bc-liberals-pushing-through-anti-union-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/03\/bc-liberals-pushing-through-anti-union-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Liberals Pushing through anti-Union Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BC Government approved on party lines an order to push through the anti-union\/ anti-BCTF Bill 22. \u00a0The approved order states that &#8220;on or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leg.bc.ca\/hansard\/39th4th\/H20312y.htm\" target=\"_blank\">or before Thursday, March 15, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. all remaining proceedings relating to Bill (No. 22) shall be completed and disposed of<\/a>.&#8221; \u00a0This rush to undermine fair bargaining rights in BC precludes thoughtful debate and the opposition party&#8217;s ability to amend or defer the legislation. \u00a0The NDP has amended Bill 22 for &#8220;cooler heads to prevail&#8221; and bring in a mediator to settle the labour dispute. \u00a0This is an option requested by the BCTF as well.<\/p>\n<p>Repeatedly with Bill 22, through just a 3-day strike by the BCTF, the Liberals have insisted that legislation is needed for a &#8220;cooling off&#8221; or &#8220;cooling out&#8221; period while all along heating up the environment for undermining labour relations in the province. \u00a0Heating up for cooling down. \u00a0We&#8217;ve seen this too many times before with the BC Liberals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BC Government approved on party lines an order to push through the anti-union\/ anti-BCTF Bill 22. \u00a0The approved order states that &#8220;on or\u00a0or before Thursday, March 15, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. all remaining proceedings relating to Bill (No. 22) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/03\/bc-liberals-pushing-through-anti-union-legislation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[406501,2257,635,2262,2271,2272,2275,2276],"tags":[1288930,1288951,1288960,1288964],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bc-education","category-employment-rights","category-government","category-k-12-issues","category-strikes","category-strikes-labor-disputes","category-unions","category-working-conditions","tag-government","tag-k-12-issues","tag-strikes-labor-disputes","tag-working-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766","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\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8773,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions\/8773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}