[编者按：BC教育部长Peter Fassbender 称他好像生活在电影《土拔鼠日》，罢工形势每天都是昨天的重复，昨天他就工会要求仲裁的提案做出回应，“仲裁根本就不是这副牌中的一张，句号。”至此，提案找到斩钉截铁的拒绝。BC教师罢工之路将导向何处？孩子们什么时候才能回到自己的书桌旁？即将毕业的12年级学生会不会因为此次罢工影响他们入大学的申请？焦虑、渴望、无奈、愤怒，学生、家长以至民众都在怎么想，将会怎么做？]
CBC News：
B.C. Education minister Peter Fassbender said Monday he feels like he is living in the time-loop comedy Groundhog Day and that the position of the striking teachers' union "is absolutely silly."
Fassbender was responding to an announcement earlier in the day by B.C. Teachers' Federation (BCTF) president Jim Iker, who said teachers will vote Wednesday on whether to end their strike and return to work in the event that the government agrees to binding arbitration.
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"Arbitration is not in the cards, period," Fassbender said, suggesting that the BCTF made the proposal knowing the government would not agree to anything that could have implications for taxpayers.
Fassbender said the teachers have offered nothing new, and that he has nothing new to say — likening the situation to the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray relives the same day over and over.
He said the BCTF was pushing for binding arbitration to "make them look reasonable" and that the union's preconditions for arbitration were "non-starters."
"They want something [the E80 clause] taken off the table, that is exactly what they want to do — negotiate class size and composition. It's absolutely silly. I do not understand it."
The BCTF announced Friday it was prepared to enter the arbitration process, with certain conditions, though the offer was soon rejected by the government.
The union's latest move appears to be aimed at putting pressure on the province to accept binding arbitration.
Teachers say the main sticking point is the class size and composition clause, E80, in the contract proposed by the province. The union says E80 must be dropped before arbitration can begin.
A "yes" vote by teachers would end the strike and reopen the schools as soon as the government agreed to arbitration, Iker said.
An arbitrator would decide what's fair, he said, acknowledging that there would likely be compromises on both sides.
"We're proposing that we stand down the strike," he said. "Are there risks involved? Absolutely. But that's the commitment we are making."
Fassbender was responding to an announcement earlier in the day by B.C. Teachers' Federation (BCTF) president Jim Iker, who said teachers will vote Wednesday on whether to end their strike and return to work in the event that the government agrees to binding arbitration.
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"Arbitration is not in the cards, period," Fassbender said, suggesting that the BCTF made the proposal knowing the government would not agree to anything that could have implications for taxpayers.
Fassbender said the teachers have offered nothing new, and that he has nothing new to say — likening the situation to the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray relives the same day over and over.
He said the BCTF was pushing for binding arbitration to "make them look reasonable" and that the union's preconditions for arbitration were "non-starters."
"They want something [the E80 clause] taken off the table, that is exactly what they want to do — negotiate class size and composition. It's absolutely silly. I do not understand it."
The BCTF announced Friday it was prepared to enter the arbitration process, with certain conditions, though the offer was soon rejected by the government.
The union's latest move appears to be aimed at putting pressure on the province to accept binding arbitration.
Teachers say the main sticking point is the class size and composition clause, E80, in the contract proposed by the province. The union says E80 must be dropped before arbitration can begin.
A "yes" vote by teachers would end the strike and reopen the schools as soon as the government agreed to arbitration, Iker said.
An arbitrator would decide what's fair, he said, acknowledging that there would likely be compromises on both sides.
"We're proposing that we stand down the strike," he said. "Are there risks involved? Absolutely. But that's the commitment we are making."
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