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B.C. business community wades into teachers strike as more unions join fray
VANCOUVER (CP) – B.C. business leaders waded into the teachers’ dispute on Sunday in an attempt to pressure organized labour to obey the law.
The B.C. Federation of Labour has asked members of public and private sector unions to leave work and join a march in Victoria at 11 a.m. Monday and rally at the legislature at 1 p.m. as it sits for the first time since the strike by 38,000 members of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation began on Oct. 7. Almost 15,000 Vancouver Island members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees are expected to join the Monday protest. They will be followed on Tuesday by 4,000 CUPE members in northern B.C.
The union represents workers in schools, health care, municipal operations, social services and post-secondary education.
CUPE president Barry O’Neill said in a statement Sunday that 25,000 school support workers represented by his union have been out of work since the teachers walked out.
“I’m proud of CUPE members who feel it is time to take a stand against unacceptable government legislation and action and this attack on collective bargaining,” O’Neill said.
[…] Coalition of B.C. Business chairman Kevin Evans, and Business Council of B.C. president Jerry Lampert echoed Winter at a Sunday news conference.
“The fundamental question is not do you support teachers or are you angry at the government?,” said Evans. “The primary question we all need to answer is ‘Do we believe that the foundation of our civil society is respect for the rule of law?’ “
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