The President of the Prince George and District Teachers’ Association isn’t on board with the government’s proposed “cooling off” period.
Responding to the Education Minister’s suggestion that the BCTF lifts their strike for two weeks to get school back on time, Tina Cousins says the Federation has been cool all summer while they waited to bargain with the government.
“I have talked to many of our picket lines that are up around Prince George [Thursday] and our members don’t feel very happy about a cooling off period,” she says. “Because we feel we’ve been at the bargaining table for a long time and we need to get the deal done. Not a cooling off period.”
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Cousins feels there is good will on both sides, though talk of backing off from supreme court decisions on class size and composition ahead of mediated negotiations with five days until the scheduled start of school — is very crammed.
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