The BC Teachers Union says the Province is reading way too much into a letter sent out to teachers by a Burnaby local.
Union First Vice-President Jim Iker says the email just spells out the do’s and don’t’s of a recent vote on the job action opposing Bill 22, “There is no threat implied with the email at all.”
Iker says there are processes within the union, but wouldn’t define any punishment, for teachers who ignore a ban on extra-curricular work, “This is all hypothetical right now. There have actually been no complaints made in Burnaby or elsewhere across the Province and I think it is an issue, like I said, that Government is trying to use this to divert the attention from what they have been doing with Bill 22.”
The email warns of consequences and the unions own handbook says that could mean a withholding of strike pay, or suspension of union office.
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