Union worries teachers will lose out on pay bump if school divisions don t offer new deal soon
Teachers associations for Manitoba s three largest school divisions say their employers are refusing to negotiate new contracts, and they re troubled about what could happen if a looming provincial bill comes into effect.
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January 29, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Socialist Project As 2021 begins, many people in Manitoba are hopeful that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. The number of infections reported is falling. Effective vaccines have been approved and will eventually become widely available. Unfortunately, the pandemic is far from over and the worst could still lie ahead.
Manitoba, like most jurisdictions in Canada except the Atlantic provinces and Northern territories, is using a public-health strategy for responding to COVID-19 that hasn’t given us the protection and positive outcomes that we could have expected. This strategy – one of mitigation, to use the epidemiological term – has aimed to keep the virus from spreading so much that sick people overwhelm the hospital system.