The province’s teachers are going to be taking a “sanctions vote” next month.

An approved vote would give the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation bargaining committee the ability to authorize some kind of job action which could include a strike.

The move comes after several days of conciliation talks with the provincial government failed.

The two sides have been negotiating for more than nine months.

In a release, STF president Patrick Maze says his group remains committed to ensuring concerns like class size and composition are addressed and that both students and teachers deserve better, “