Ontario teachers

OSSTF/FEESO is pleased to report that a tentative agreement has been reached at the Teacher/Occasional Teacher central bargaining table with the Government of Ontario and the OPSBA.

n what was a positive meeting with Premier Wynne and the Education Minister, ETFO president identified what needs to happen for negotiations to proceed at the bargaining table.

Ontario elementary public school teachers are providing report card marks to school boards. Parents need to ask why school boards may not be able to provide those marks to students at the end of this

"The legislation that was passed accomplishes nothing more than to inflame a situation that's already rife with animosity and distrust."

"We emphatically maintain that these strikes have always been about local issues and our members in Durham, Rainbow and Peel will be back on the picket lines on June 10."

The sweeping back-to-work legislation imposed by the government on secondary school teachers in Ontario region is a blatant infringement of teachers' constitutionally protected right to strike.

In their rush to manage new expectations put on our schools, school boards have opted for convenient, expedient solutions rather than ones that put students first or that respect their teachers.