Three months after their contract was settled, the province’s 41,000 teachers should begin receiving their grievance fund cheques this week.
“We’re doing the cheque printing this week and the mail out will begin,” said B.C. Teachers’ Federation media relations officer Rich Overgaard. “Everyone will get one except people who crossed picket lines and were therefore paid during the strike.”
The money is a $105-million payment to address grievances from a long-running court case and was part of the deal reached in the teachers’ strike that closed schools for 27 days between June and September.
The deal also gave teachers a wage increase of 7.25 per cent over six years and $400 million to hire new teachers over six years. Overgaard did not know the average payment per teacher, because the payments varied depending on hours of work.
