Teachers held a rally along Starrs Road this afternoon.
Well over 100 local members of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union held picket signs, unhappy with a contract about to be imposed on them by the Nova Scotia government.
Yarmouth NSTU President Rollie Hannem says their right to bargain has been taken away.
“We’ve had things stripped from our contract, and now we have a whole new contract that is being forced on us. It’s frustrating, and that’s why teachers are out here today.”
Yarmouth high teacher Robyn McKenzie says she is disgusted with the McNeil Liberals.
“Because this is dictatorship. This is not government, this is not what we voted people in for. We have the right to be heard and to have a respectable package, which we don’t have. If they understood we have the future of their children in our hands, maybe they’d support us more.”
Over 120 gather for rally organized by the Yarmouth Local of the NSTU. pic.twitter.com/TdJuZSAw7f
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This is the second time local teachers have held a rally in Yarmouth since work-to-rule job action began in early December.
A one-day walkout of NSTU members across the province is coming Friday, the first time ever teachers have ever walked off the job in Nova Scotia.
