Description: B.C. Education Minister George Abbott says B.C. teachers and their employer are “oceans apart” and suggests the dispute won’t be “settled happily.”

Source: The Victoria Times-Colonist

Date: 02/10/2012

Link: http://www.timescolonist.com/business/Teachers+bosses+ocean+apart/6132362/story.html

Related links:

• B.C. government appoints fact finder
• Press releases from government, B.C. Teachers’ Federation
• Earlier update
• B.C. Public School Employers’ Association
• B.C. Teachers’ Federation
• B.C. Ministry of Education

Questions for discussion:

• What is the role of the government fact finder in this dispute?
• What are the B.C. teachers asking for?
• What is the government’s position?
• Which do you think is more reasonable?
• Why?