{"id":7370,"date":"2024-05-24T15:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T18:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7370"},"modified":"2024-05-24T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T18:20:44","slug":"nstu-members-ratify-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/05\/24\/nstu-members-ratify-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"NSTU members ratify new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7110\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7110\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ryanlutes-1024x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ryanlutes-1024x565.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ryanlutes-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ryanlutes-1536x847.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ryanlutes-2048x1130.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Lutes is the president of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union. (Nova Scotia Teachers Union YouTube channel)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 10,000 members of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union have ratified a new contract with the province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The deal was reached on April 26. Some 91 per cent of members voted on the contract on May 22. And 80.5 per cent voted to accept it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis agreement contains several important gains for teachers, and while it doesn\u2019t address all the challenges our schools are facing, it is a fair agreement that serves as a solid stepping stone to future progress,\u201d NSTU president Ryan Lutes said in a news release this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis would not have been possible without the strength and solidarity members demonstrated when they provided the bargaining team with an overwhelming strike mandate earlier this spring.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The agreement includes an 11.47 per cent salary increase over three years for full-time teachers. Substitute teachers will also get an extra 12 per cent raise and will require eight fewer days to qualify as a full-time teacher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers will also be getting more time for marking and preparation. Beginning Aug. 1, they will have a minimum of 15 per cent of instructional time for marking and classroom prep.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The number of school counsellors will also increase. And the Nova Scotia government has guaranteed that neither class sizes nor the school day will increase for the term of the contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The teachers\u2019 previous contract expired last July 31. The salary increases are retroactive to Aug. 1 of last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10,000 members of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union have ratified a new contract with the province. The deal was reached on April 26. Some 91 per cent of members voted on the contract on May 22. And 80.5 per cent voted to accept it.\u00a0 \u201cThis agreement contains several important gains for teachers, and while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2033,2078,2232,2234,1952,2233,2029,399,2030,2032,2081],"class_list":["post-7370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-classroom","tag-collective-bargaining","tag-contract","tag-instructional-time","tag-labour","tag-labour-negotiations","tag-nova-scotia-teachers-union","tag-nstu","tag-ryan-lutes","tag-teachers","tag-teachers-contract"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7371,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions\/7371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}