It is interesting that Mr. Fassbender suggests that the reason the government won’t legislate the teachers back to work is because the teachers might begin new litigation proceedings, after being so-legislated. In fact, the 2002 case before the courts, won twice by the teachers and counting, was because the government did not honour a contract which had been negotiated — one in which the teachers sacrificed a pay increase in order to have smaller classes.
Furthermore, the Justice Griffin stated that the government had an agenda which was clearly orchestrated to provoke a strike for political reasons. And you wonder why the teachers will not trust the government when they say “park the court case,” to be dealt with later.
John Dumas
Agassiz
