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Originally Posted by malcolmk14
Peter Mackay, Chair of the Central Teachers' Bargaining Committee, resigned this evening.
Feel like teachers (and students) are about to eat a #### sandwich served up by this government.
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Hopefully he resigned because he wanted to fold and take the government deal and everyone else said 'no'.
More likely, he is falling on his sword because of this whole "mandate" thing where the ATA called out TEBA for showing up without a mandate to talk about class sizes or complexity. Although, the UCP is using this whole thing as an excuse to attack the teachers, which they were going to do no matter what.. so no one should blink over a bad faith negotiation tactic.
Or maybe it is entirely unrelated and he had to resign for personal reasons...
Hopefully whoever replaces him as Chair will have a strong backbone and will hold the line.