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Nova Scotia teachers vote overwhelmingly for strike mandate

Bargaining with the province isn’t working as is, says union

By Lauren Phillips, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

On Apr. 11, a record-breaking 98% of teachers in the Nova Scotia Teachers Union–NSTU–voted in favour of a strike mandate. This means that the union of over 10,000 teachers and educational specialists have voted to give the NSTU executive the authority to move into strike action, if needed, over what they describe as a lack of confidence in bargaining for a new collective agreement with their employer, the minister of education and early childhood development...