Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-10-05
issued: 1983-11-09
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note: n*********.*!*.!,,.' . .■...'........,,,■, t .v. ■^.■..■J*.i,wv*ri*>f***(.(\ Legislative Library Jarliaao-'it* Bul.Idimgs Viotoria, b.C. T£V l%_ By RUDY LANGMANN ALDERGROVE - Well, the teachers are out on strike and the town is filling up with kids with nothing to do. Dp teachers have the right to strike in the first place? Their federation, after all, is not classified as a union. They are supposedly professional people. Ask this question of the man in the street and' you will get many different answers (see this week's Town Talk'eolumn)..Ask a lawyer, and he doesn't know either. Well, maybe, but then on the other hand maybe not, A court ruling has never been* made in British Columbia. So far, at least. .' School board officials are just as uncertain. Chairwoman of the Langley trustees, Donna Rantamaa says merely that she and her colleagues "disagree with the walkout". ; Sdiool district superintendent Emery Dosdall says all he knows is that "if no work, there will be no pay". Dosdall says he has sent a directive to all principals, vice principals and head teachers in the district (they are all membere of the B.C. Teachers Federation along with classroom teachers) that they have to cross the picket lines and keep the schools open. "Our position is that all schools will be open for the students," Dosdall stated at a pieHi conference in the district board room Friday afternoon. "Legally we cannot dose the schools," he added. There simply aren't any provisions for a shut down of educational facilities for the public in the provincial schools act, he said. Other than that, Dosdall did not know what to say on how his objectives could be met. He relied heavily on action from above, from the provincial ministry of education. So far, at press deadline, minister Jack Heinrich. hasn't come up with the answers either. Some school districts in British Columbia have considered applying for court injunctions to keep the schools open. Langley has not. Maybe the local tnistees will…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
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language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
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