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In a move it hopes will secure a better deal for teachers and win public support for education funding, the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation is planning to break with tradition and make details of its contract talks sessions public.

STF President Pat Maze said transparent negotiations — the union plans to post detailed updates on its website after each session — should stop both sides from putting forward proposals that might be deemed unreasonable by the public.

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“The public deserves to know where each side falls, who is negotiating for what and what’s important to each side,” Maze said, adding that is because teachers’ conditions of employment, such as class size, directly affect the students they teach.

“I believe teachers are on the right side of this argument in saying that we want our students to be offered the highest-quality education. And under the current cutbacks (in education funding), that’s just not happening.”