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INFORMATION BULLETIN  

2012EDUC0019-000236

March 3, 2012

Ministry of Education

BCTF Claims and Facts

British Columbia Teachers’ Federation

Claim

FACT

700 fewer Special Needs teachers 2,100 additional special needs teaching

assistants in B.C. classrooms.

Ninth-best paid in Canada B.C. teachers’ salary plus benefits is fourth-

best among provinces.

A decade of cuts to education funding. A decade of continual increases in funding -

with record funding levels this year.

Seniority eroded under Bill 22 - Education

Improvement Act

Seniority remains key factor but qualifications

also considered. Math teachers teaching

Math; Science teachers teaching Science.

Contract demands are reasonable A 15 per cent wage increase is completely

unreasonable, given the current economic

reality.

Wage increases are modest Teachers’ union demands would cost

$2 billion, which would raise taxes on all B.C.

families.

Eliminated class sizes Class-size caps on all grades with exceptions

made by principals and superintendents.

Reject net-zero wage mandate 130 net-zero agreements negotiated.

25,000 K-12 CUPE employees reached net zero

agreement.

Teachers have not been fairly

compensated

Teachers received a 16 per cent wage

increase; $3,700 signing bonus for their last

contract.

12,000 overcrowded classes Of 65,000 classes, fewer than 1,500 have more

than 31 students.

Fewer than 600 have more than 33 -- most of 

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 these are band, choir and theatre.

Teachers want to negotiate a settlement

so we can continue to teach our kids. The

BC government has refused to negotiate

Employers at the table for 1 year, 78

bargaining sessions. 6 months of stage 1

strike action.

Government has now introduced

legislation that does nothing to solve the

problem

Bill 22 sets out mediation, implements

Learning Improvement Fund, restores right to

bargaining on class size, compensation forteachers with class size over 30, among other

improvements.

Government has said no to negotiation on

smaller classes for kids.

False. Bill 22 restores bargaining on class size

in 2013.

Government has said no negotiation on

support for students with special needs

False. BCTF walked away from Learning

Improvement Fund discussions last fall.

There will be no negotiation on even cost

of living.

Net zero mandate can make trade offs within

contract...e.g., savings from consolidating 60

separate benefit plans could be put into wage

increase.

Teachers want real mediation Bill 22 sets parameters for successful

mediation.

Contact: Ministry of Education

Government Communications and Public Engagement

250 356-5963 (Media Line)

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