BILL 22 IS A BAD APPPLE FOR EVERYONE

BILL 22 is an insulting Liberal government imposition upon the teaching profession of B.C. It will exploit educators in order to save educational dollars. It will remove current class size and composition limitations which will impact the teacher interaction with individual students for the sake of reducing the number of necessary teachers and classrooms. It attacks professional autonomy and the prerogative of collective bargaining. It is contextualized within a simulated mediation process overseen by a mediator of the government’s choice and who without a doubt will be supportive of the uncompromisingly combative position by the Liberal government that devalues education and educators by legislatively imposing employers’ demands for teachers to concede with respect to seniority, evaluations, placements, discipline, layoff and dismissal. Parents and the public in general must recognize the offensiveness of this treatment of educators and its prospective affect upon students.