Vancouver teachers picket

Vancouver Teachers Federation pickets during strike over class sizes as the main issue. In those days individual teachers associations bargained separately with their school districts. Local bargaining was later removed and replaced with a province-wide system by the NDP government, and the Liberals in 2002 removed the right to bargain working issues such as class sizes. At this writing (February 2015) the issue was still before the courts, which had previously twice ruled the right was improperly taken from teachers.