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Local Greens weigh in on teachers impasse

Nelson-Creston’s Green Party representative is wading in on the bitter teacher-government labour dispute.

Sjeng Derkx is responding to the NDP’s insistence that the Liberal government has this one all wrong.

He says that highlights BC’s dysfunctional political climate.

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The Greens want binding arbitration. The NDP supports the BCTF in that stance as well but the government has rejected the idea.

Derkx adds contract bargaining should be done at a local school board level including matters of class size and composition.

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