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B.C. Teachers Rally In Vancouver, Repeat Call For Binding Arbitration

Darpan News Desk Darpan, 06 Sep, 2014 01:51 AM

VANCOUVER - The head of British Columbia's teachers' union has turned the screws on the provincial government to agree to binding arbitration and settle a teachers strike that has kept half-a-million students out of class.

Jim Iker addressed masses of teachers, their supporting unions and members of the opposition New Democrats at a rally in downtown Vancouver Friday evening.

He repeated his call for binding arbitration after getting a negative response by Education Minister Peter Fassbender to the union's proposal.

Friday was the first time the teachers' union has proposed such a settlement method in its decades of combative history with B.C. governments of all political stripes.

If the government agrees, both sides would mutually agree on a person who would hammer out contract details that everyone would be compelled to accept.

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