The Labour Relations Board is dealing with the teachers contract dispute on multiple fronts after the employer has now taken issue over report cards.
BC Public School Employers Association spokesperson Mel Joy says the teachers union and its locals are encouraging teachers to not fill out report cards, as part of their action plan opposing Bill 22.
So they went to the LRB.
She said “We filed it under part five of the labour relations code which prohibits strikes during the term of a collective agreement in our view the advice of the BCTF and its locals to teachers to continue to refuse to submit marks or produce those report cards amounts to a declaration of strike action and that is contrary to the labour relations code.”
Joy says BCPSEA has asked the LRB to convene a hearing on the issue on Monday.
This comes as BCTF has also filed with the LRB to have the government appointed mediator in their dispute removed for being biased.
The Ministry of Education however says removing the mediator is a matter for the courts and not the LRB.