News for Youse: VCC and BCIT classes cancelled, Gaza pounded, and Justin Bieber wins big
BCIT and VCC campuses closed Support workers are off the job for one day at Vancouver Community College and faculty are also refusing to work today at the B.C. Institute of Technology to draw attention to their contract demands.
Gaza crisis intensifies Israel continues to pound Gaza with air strikes in response to Palestinian rocket fire, killing more than two dozen today.
Twenties work on transit machines TransLink has announced that the new $20 bills can now be used at its ticket-vending machines.
Amanda Todd remembered Hundreds showed up at a memorial service yesterday in Coquitlam for Amanda Todd, who took her life at the age of 15 after being bullied.
Robertson's one-year anniversary A year ago today, Gregor Robertson led Vision Vancouver to a landslide victory in the civic election.
Filmmaker's body found Ohio documentary director Warren Sill's body was recently located in Whiskey Creek in northwestern B.C. He went missing last summer while shooting a film about Kermode bears.
U.S. housing market recovering Home sales south of the border rose two percent in October, according to the National Association of Realtors, despite difficulties caused by Superstorm Sandy.
Topless protesters clash with Catholics Young women with Femen, an anticlerical and anti-sex-trade group, were attacked in Paris when they tried to interrupt a demonstration by Catholics against same-sex marriage.
No pro sports in Vancouver Yesterday's defeat of the B.C. Lions along with the NHL lockout and the earlier elimination of the Vancouver Whitecaps means there is no professional sports team playing in any of the city's stadiums.
Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen honoured Justin Bieber won artist of the year, favourite pop/rock artist, and favourite pop/rock album at the American Music Awards; Carly Rae Jepsen took home the award for new artist of the year.
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BCITBusinessInstructor
Nov 19, 2012 at 12:53pm
Who keeps the government or management honest? BCIT instructors haven’t been on strike for 13 years; instructors aren’t doing this just for their wages (only for sector/industry parity). They're doing it because the quality of programs is eroding. There are instructors who will retire at the end of December who are walking the picket line today; they are losing money in their wages and pensions for the rest of their lives. They're doing this because they care about students and the quality of education at our school and it's impact on the province. If there’s an erosion of the quality of education at BCIT, this affects not just present and future students but it also has a negative impact on the graduates entering and competing in the workplace, and ultimately lowers the level of productivity of our economy.