Dispute Impacting High School Basketball Playoffs
The on-going contract dispute between the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF) and the provincial government is set to see additional sanctions next week.
Today the STF announced on Monday March 4th there will be a one day rotating strike where they will be withdrawing professional and voluntary services for the day.
This is in addition to the withdrawal of extracurricular activities on March 5th (Tuesday) and March 6th (Wednesday).
Teachers will not report to school and will not perform any teaching-related duties this coming Monday.
The one day strike also includes extracurricular activities.
The schools affected by the one day rotating strike in Moose Jaw are:
Prairie South School Division
Association Locale des Enseignantes et des Enseignants Fransaskois - École Ducharme
Saskatchewan Distance Learning Corporation (Including Moose Jaw)
The reason for the job actions is because of a contract negotiation impact on wages and additional classroom resources plus class sizes between the STF and the provincial government.
Impact on Basketball Playoffs
The three days of job actions will impact the Moose Jaw high school city league playoffs.
On the junior side three finals are now postponed and will have to be rescheduled.
Monday was to see the junior girls final between the Central Cyclones and the Vanier Spirits the final is now postponed.
Additionally Monday was to see the junior boys final between Central Red and the Peacock Toilers but that game will be postponed.
Tuesday was set to see the JV (Junior Varsity) boys final between the South Hill Royal Falcons and the Assiniboia Rockets but that game is now also postponed.
Junior teams can reschedule their finals up to March 13th.
On the senior side their playoffs were set to tip off on Tuesday but are now postponed with the league looking to reschedule the games.
There were to be four senior boys/girls semi-final games on Tuesday evening.