Teachers and the Saskatchewan government are scheduled to head back to the bargaining table next week, but they still appear to be a long way from agreeing to a new contract.
Teachers in the province have been without a contract since August and a series of escalating job actions by teachers only came to a stop Wednesday evening after the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF) was invited back to the bargaining table by the Ministry of Education, who says the provincial negotiators had a new mandate.
But when the STF and the provincial government meet in Saskatoon for two days of discussions next week they are likely to continue disagreeing on classroom size and complexity.