{"id":6281,"date":"2015-09-30T19:36:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T19:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=6281"},"modified":"2015-09-30T22:05:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T22:05:03","slug":"laval-school-strike-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/09\/30\/laval-school-strike-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Laval: School strike looms\u2014Oct. 28?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SWLSB extracurricular\u00a0activities spared<\/h1>\n

By Robert Frank<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board (SWLSB) teachers have voted to give their union a strike mandate. Last week 56 percent of Laurier Teachers Union (LTU) members cast ballots at meetings in Laval, Sept. 21, and in St. J\u00e9r\u00f4me, Sept. 22.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn total, 89 percent of our membership present voted for the strike,\u201d reported LTU president S\u00e9bastien Joly.<\/p>\n

Joly told The Suburban<\/em> that deteriorating contract negotiations have motivated teachers to walk off the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe teachers are certainly quite upset,\u201d he said in an interview. \u201cIn a nutshell, the government is proposing to impose<\/p>\n

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additional cutbacks on resources. We\u2019re almost back to step one [in the labour negotiations] last January.\u201d<\/p>\n

LTU is working in lockstep with the province\u2019s other teachers and public service unions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are negotiating along with the Quebec Provincial Association of Teachers (QPAT) which represents some 8,500 English teachers in Quebec as well as the federation representing nearly 60,000 French teachers,\u201d Joly explained. \u201cWe\u2019re going with a common front that includes three other big union federations who represent public sector employees.\u201d<\/p>\n

The common front strike vote will close down the entire education sector, including CEGEPs, QPAT president Richard Goldfinch told The Suburban.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAll 10 locals have voted by majorities of 70-90 percent for up to six-to-eight days of\u00a0strike action,\u201d he said in an interview. \u201cThose are some of the strongest strike mandates that we\u2019ve seen in quite a long time. Teachers are really, really angry and are willing to let the government know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cTeachers want more support in the classroom, smaller classes and [continued] support for special needs students that the government wants to remove,\u201d Goldfinch explained. \u201cWe\u2019re perplexed by the government\u2019s latest demands. We don\u2019t understand why they\u2019ve gone back to where they started.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dispute is also about money. The starting salaries a Quebec teacher is about $42,000 and rises to about $78,000 within 17 years. The unions say that Quebec teachers are the lowest-paid in the country. However, direct comparisons can be difficult because salaries can vary widely by region in other provinces like Ontario.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The government] wants to add three hours to our weekly schedule and tell us what to do with all 35 hours,\u201d Goldfinch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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complained. \u201cTo add insult to injury, they have not offered us any real salary increase: Just three percent over five years. We\u2019re negotiating together with the common front, which is asking for 13.5 percent over three years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to see fewer and fewer people signing up to become teachers, because they won\u2019t have a very good paying job,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n

Rotating walkouts pending<\/h3>\n

Goldfinch expects the strike to commence sometime after the Oct. 19 federal election, with Oct. 28 as a possible date for the first walkoff, the head of another teachers\u2019 union told The Suburban.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe strike situation seems to be gelling in terms of dividing the province into four regions,\u201d Pearson Teachers Union president John Donnelly said in an interview \u201cIn the first go round, each region will stage a one-day strike with nurses, teachers and public servants [there] all going out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAt that point we\u2019ll assess the lay of the land and then another round that might be two days or perhaps go for a province-wide strike,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe have to give parents seven days notice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike most other school boards, SWLSB students will be spared a blanket boycott of extracurricular activities (ECAs).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re the only union that provides for ECAs in its collective agreement,\u201d LTU president Joly explained. \u201cTeachers get ECA time credited to them as part of their 32-hour weekly workload.\u201d<\/p>\n

School union locals are still free to pull the plug collectively on the fun after-school activities, though, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was certainly no direction from the common front of unions to ban ECAs,\u201d Joly said. \u201cIt\u2019s an individual or school choice, basically. One of our schools held a vote to ban ECAs, but it was rejected. Individual teachers might also decide not to participate in ECAs until negotiations are complete.\u201d<\/p>\n

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