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Job action could be on the horizon after four days of conciliation talks between the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation and the provincial government failed to reach an agreement or make progress toward a new contract.

While the three-member conciliation panel pushed both sides to compromise, they remain divided on the best way to ensure classrooms have adequate resources, STF President Patrick Maze said, calling it a “squandered opportunity.”

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“They weren’t interested in discussing class size and class composition in any meaningful manner. They seem to think it’s their right to manage the sector but we would say it substantially affects our working conditions,” Maze said.

The provincial government offered a different assessment. In a prepared statement, Education Minister Gord Wyant said the government-trustee bargaining committee “felt that progress was being made toward solutions on a number of items.