Ontario’s public elementary schools will be closed for two days next week as teachers step up job action amid stalled contract talks with the provincial government.
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO), the province’s largest education union, with 83,000 members, said Monday that it would stage a full provincewide walkout on Feb. 6. This would be accompanied by a week of rotating strikes that would hit every public board on a certain day, unless an agreement on a new contract is reached with Doug Ford’s government. That means schools would be shut down twice in one week by job action, leaving thousands of parents scrambling for child care.
The union told its members in a memo on Monday that the one-day provincewide and one-day rotating strikes would continue “each week” going forward unless there is a deal.
No talks have been scheduled between the two sides.
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Jack’s Note: I’m wondering why the government doesn’t legislate the teachers as an ‘essential service’ like firefighters and police. That would end the disruptions as all disputes would go to arbitration. It seems to me these unions are just begging for this kind of action to happen.
