Dec. 3 deadline for job action
The Nova Scotia Teachers Union has agreed to go back to bargaining for 9,300 public school teachers in the province.
"We tried through requesting a conciliation board and through requesting the appointment of a mediator," said Liette Doucet, NSTU president. "It seems government is finally willing to get back to the table."
This morning the NSTU was contacted by conciliation officer Jarrod Baboushkin after the education minister's negotiating team requested he bring the two negotiating teams together again, according to the union.
The conciliation process will not affect the current situation with respect to NSTU's impending job action, said the union.
NSTU public school members gave its union a strike mandate on Oct. 25, voting 96 per cent in favour of job action. Teachers will be in a legal strike position on Dec. 3.
There is no further information available at this time with respect to when both sides will be meeting.
