I'm confounded by his refusal to meet and find solutions.

The FSA tests are beginning to affect teaching and learning in a bad way. Because those tests are used to evaluate schools, students and classrooms, what's started to happen is teachers are being forced to teach to the test.

We could get to a table within hours. We could meet overnight and we could avert tomorrow.

Teachers are taking a stand to protect and advocate for our students' learning conditions, for our bargaining rights and for public education.

Teachers have the utmost respect for the law and judiciary. However, teachers voted 90.5 per cent to take a stand for public education.

Teachers are being forced to take a stand against an unjust law. It's this government that intervened and passed an unjust law while we were negotiating within the rules they made.