Clint Johnston, a former elementary teacher from Chilliwack, B.C., defeated a challenge from a Vancouver teacher running on a campaign to divest the teacher union's pension fund from fossil fuels.
Teachers from across British Columbia re-elected a former Chilliwack elementary teacher as president of their union in a landslide victory against a challenger who ran on a platform to divest the union’s $38-billion pension fund from oil and gas investments.
Maguire had run on a platform calling for the BC Teachers' Pension Plan to move to divest its nearly $38 billion in assets from fossil fuel companies. The high school teacher said she decided to challenge Johnston after he had failed to follow through on a 2022 motion to lobby the BC Investment Corporation to divest the pension fund from oil and gas companies.
“We can talk to them, work with them, and then advocate to the trustees to see if we can move towards [fossil fuel] divestment if we think that's the best way,” he said. Maguire said she’s also hopeful a motion she proposed will move the BCTF to come up with a plan to fully divest teacher pensions from fossil fuel by 2028. Another motion put forward by the Greater Victoria school board, seeks to create a task force to investigate the ways to divest the teachers’ pension fund from fossil fuels.
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