“Where I teach, my classroom is in a wing of a school that was built in the 60s. It's recycled air. I have great big windows but they don’t open, some of the people in my section don’t even have windows at all and I’ve had respiratory issues.”

The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO), Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF), l’Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO) and the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association (OECTA) represent over 160,000 teachers currently without a deal.

Education workers and the province reached a tentative agreement Sunday night, hours before they were set to go on strike.

With the exception of Conseil scolaire Viamonde, all London-area school boards announced last week that schools would be closed Monday in the event of a strike.

Dozens of school boards intended to close Monday as the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Ontario government were stuck in contract negotiations.

Ontario's educational workers will head back to the bargaining table this weekend amid preparations for a work-to-rule campaign starting Monday.