The BC Teachers’ Federation is the union representing public school teachers, serving over 51,000 members in British Columbia. They advocate for a free, inclusive and quality public education system where the learning needs of all students can be met. The BCTF conducts research into inclusive education funding, class composition, and specialist staffing shortages, and has documented a persistent gap between what districts spend on inclusive education and what the province funds. They fought to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2016 to restore class size and composition as bargainable working conditions, a landmark victory that also codified the presence of designated students in classrooms as a labour condition to be managed through collective agreement. The BCTF’s advocacy for inclusion aligns most reliably with its members’ interests: demands for more funding, more educational assistants, and smaller class sizes are simultaneously demands for better working conditions. When those interests diverge — when a teacher seeks a student’s removal, or when a school implements a partial schedule to manage composition — the union’s structural obligation runs to its member, and the child’s right to education is seondary.