TORONTO – Ontario’s English Catholic teachers have announced they will hold a provincewide strike next Tuesday.
This will be the second one-day strike by the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association amid stalled contract talks.
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OECTA president Liz Stuart says she knows Ontarians are growing impatient, but the teachers can’t let the government wear them down and accept cuts.
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Teachers’ unions, including OECTA, are opposed to class size increases and mandatory e-learning requirements imposed by the government, but Education Minister Stephen Lecce has framed compensation as the key issue for all teachers’ unions.
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OECTA’s news comes a day after the union representing public elementary teachers announced it will ramp up its rotating strikes next week.
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario says it will stage a provincewide strike once a week – with the first one set for Thursday, Feb. 6 – and each board where it has members will be hit by a one-day rotating strike as well.
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