{"id":50,"date":"2011-07-09T11:24:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T18:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/50"},"modified":"2014-08-08T08:08:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T15:08:22","slug":"you-know-it%e2%80%99s-contract-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/50","title":{"rendered":"Ramping up the Rage: You know it\u2019s contract time when"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/50\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>\u2026 BC&#8217;s corporate media sector starts ramping up the rage against teachers. Yesterday, the two BC dailies \u2013 both owned by the PostMedia group \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/yfrog.com\/h850487905j\" target=\"_blank\">headlined two separate anti-teacher stories<\/a>. The Province featured an article about certain BCTF bargaining demands, <em>based upon the employer&#8217;s utterly compromised interpretation<\/em>. The Sun then offered a College of Teachers story from 2008. [When Canwest owned the papers, they did the same thing before the last teachers&#8217; strike.] The stories followed a hatchet job from Keith Baldrey on Global News from the previous night. In a short piece devoid of actual statements from the BCTF, Baldrey was clearly bothered by the union demands. He later stated on Twitter (@keithbaldrey) that the demands were the &#8220;moon, stars, and all the planets&#8221;. He was also shocked by the 20% raise that the BCTF purportedly wants, but neglected to add the length of the term and, most importantly, if this was merely BCPSEA speculation. Not surprisingly, he didn&#8217;t list the concessions being sought by the employer group, or ask if the union demands were part of the BCTF&#8217;s final position. [They aren&#8217;t, Keith.]<\/p>\n<p>I wondered why a reporter would allow himself to be sucked in by a side that wants to bargain through the media. But then I realized it was a rhetorical question.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Keith and the PostMedia reporters will be next in line to join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/story\/2009\/01\/26\/senate-jean.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mike and Pamela in the Senate.<\/a>\u00a0Or join Christy&#8217;s team <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2011\/01\/05\/bc-christy-clark-pamela-martin.html\" target=\"_blank\">alongside Pamela Martin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thecommentary.ca\/thecommentary\/clarks-new-cabinet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Olsen.<\/a>\u00a0Or become Kash Heed&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bc.ctvnews.ca\/global-bc-says-reporter-breached-journalistic-principles-1.600212\" target=\"_blank\">new communication director.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Update: Below is the The Province&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/opinion\/editorial-cartoons\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">July 5 editorial cartoon<\/a>. It doesn&#8217;t really need commentary, but <a href=\"http:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Blogs\/TheHook\/Education\/2011\/07\/06\/The-Province-cartoon-compares-teachers-Hitler\/\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s some<\/a> if you want it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/nein.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-56\" title=\"nein\" src=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/nein-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/nein-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/nein-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/nein-140x140.jpg 140w, http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/nein.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 BC&#8217;s corporate media sector starts ramping up the rage against teachers. Yesterday, the two BC dailies \u2013 both owned by the PostMedia group \u2013 headlined two separate anti-teacher stories. The Province featured an article about certain BCTF bargaining demands, based upon the employer&#8217;s utterly compromised interpretation. The Sun then offered a College of Teachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,16],"tags":[22,29,30],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bc-politics","category-education","category-media","tag-education-2","tag-keith-baldrey","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}