Now, is it just me or could this deal have been reached without the strike action, the withdrawal of services and hard feelings? A little common sense would go a very long way in my opinion! This is yet another example of the union misleading it's members. This all could have been done in a matter of hours with a law firm representing the members meeting with the government. Instead these teachers have to pay their union dues each and every month for three years in a row just to have a deal that easily could have been reached without the union brass involvement!
Teachers, I hope you are listening here, get rid of your union heads, put a law firm on retainer and negotiate that way. You will pay maybe 1/100 of what you do right now to have a law firm on retainer. Then take that money you are saving and spend it on your family. Why not have that money in your pockets rather than employing people year round, year after year who are just puppets for the NDP and big labour?
Stop being pawns in a much larger game, you have been used by your union and big labour to try to get more votes for the labour friendly NDP. Vote out your union and get yourself a law firm who will represent you properly when it comes to negotiations.
STORY
Teachers walk along Lakeshore Drive in Wascana Centre enroute to Victoria Park after a rally in front of the Saskatchewan Legislative building in Regina on May 26, 2011. Teachers from the public and catholic systems are on their second day of a two-day job action.
Photograph by: Don Healy, Leader-Post files
REGINA — Saskatchewan teachers are closer to a new contract with the release Wednesday of a special mediator’s report that recommends salaries be brought in line with the western Canadian average.
The report recommends the general wage hike that was initially proposed — 5.5 per cent over three years — be accepted, noting it’s a formula the government has used to settle other public sector agreements. But mediator Richard Hornung recommended further wage hikes through “market adjustments” based on the average of teacher salaries in Manitoba, British Columbia and Alberta.
For teachers at the bottom end of the pay scale, the recommended market adjustment is an additional five per cent. For teachers at the top end of the pay grid, it’s 3.34 per cent.
The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation and the government-trustee bargaining committee issued a statement saying the report’s recommendations will form the basis of a tentative agreement.
Education Minister Donna Harpauer said she is optimistic that the two sides will reach a deal, with meetings expected to take place later this summer.
“The government accepts the report and the recommendations made by the mediator,” Harpauer said in an interview.
“I have said in the past that although our offer was 5.5 (per cent), we were definitely willing to put resources on the table to look at market adjustments.”
Read more:http://www.leaderpost.com/business/Sask+teachers+closer+contract/5061068/story.html#ixzz1RQskG6uK
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