Teri Mooring is the new President-elect of the BC Teachers’ Federation and its 43,000 members.
Mooring is a Vancouver resident who grew up in Quesnel.
She spent the last six years as the Fed’s vice president.
She will take over from Glen Hansman when his three-year term comes to an end on June 30th.
Mooring says one of her priorities is to make sure children and teachers have the same opportunities in small towns as in the large urban areas.
“Teri served for five years as president of her local union, the Quesnel District Teachers’ Association. She came to that position thoroughly grounded in the classroom, with 20 years of experience as a Grade 6–7 teacher,” says a BCTF release.
“Teri’s hometown is Quesnel and she is very proud of her background growing up, working, and raising her family in a resource-based community. As a teenager and young adult, she worked at Cariboo Pulp and Paper in Quesnel where her father was the local union president.”
The Fed says Mooring first got involved in the union movement at home and in the pulp mill.
“Family discussions around the kitchen table were often about politics. In 1988, when she was just starting her teaching career, teachers in Quesnel and across BC first unionized. She was a young staff representative when Quesnel teachers negotiated their first collective agreement,” says the union.
