Ontario Teacher Strike

• French-language system teachers ratify new contract with Ontario government

  The Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens announced today the agreement was approved by its members in an online vote.

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  Apr 30, 2020
  
• Ontario returns to bargaining table with last teachers’ union as backdrop for talks changes

  The Ontario government is attempting to close an ugly round of bargaining as it restarts talks with the only remaining teachers' union without a contract, and an expert says the COVID-19 pandemic may create a path to labour peace.

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  Apr 3, 2020
  
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• Ontario elementary school teachers to resume contract negotiations with province

  The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario is set to resume contract talks with Premier Doug Ford's government today.

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  Mar 11, 2020
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• Ontario elementary teachers to resume bargaining on Wednesday

  In previous talks earlier this year, ETFO said it was close to an agreement on several key issues, but that the government negotiators changed positions at the last minute.

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  Mar 9, 2020
• Ontario public high school teachers union pauses rotating strikes until March 27

  The Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation says it will make the move to minimize the disruption to student activities scheduled during March break.

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  Mar 6, 2020
• Ontario high school teachers hold rotating strike at 16 boards Friday

  High school teachers are off the job today at more than a dozen Ontario boards as part of their union's campaign of rotating one-day strikes.

  Education

  Feb 28, 2020
• Ontario Catholic teachers resuming one-day strikes next week

  Next Thursday's strike would come nearly two weeks after a provincewide walkout involving nearly 200,000 teachers from all four of the province's major education labour groups. It was the largest such strike in more than 20 years.

  Education

  Feb 27, 2020
• Ontario’s Catholic teachers increase their requests on benefits, education minister says

  Ontario's education minister says the province's Catholic teachers have increased what they are asking for in contract talks on benefits.

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  Feb 25, 2020
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• Thousands of teachers, education workers strike along 30 km route in Peel Region

  Roughly 20,000 teachers and education workers picketed along a 30 km stretch in Peel Region Friday in what that the unions call the longest picket line ever in the region.

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  Feb 21, 2020
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• Entire Ontario public school system closed, millions out of class Friday as teachers strike

  "This is a demonstration of unity. It's a demonstration that we're not divided from our members or from the public in this province," OSSTF president Harvey Bischof said.

  Education

  Feb 21, 2020