Only the issue of pay is truly a collective bargaining item. The province has the unilateral legal right and authority to set class sizes and define curriculum. The teachers unions talk as though they are the employer, not the employee hired to do a job.Before negotiations even began, he told the teachers what their raise will be, that their class sizes will be increasing by 6 and that further jobs will be slashed by forcing the students to get credits by taking online courses. These things should be decided at the bargaining table. Any chance of having the teachers 'play nice' or conceding was clusterfucked from the outset by Lord Clusterfuck in a way that only he can clusterfuck things.