To say it can be confusing for parents is an understatement.
Are teachers’ unions ready to work or preparing for battle? Seems the answer is both.
The leaders of the two main unions representing English public school teachers have warned that they will fight the Ford government and any changes they want to make to education in the province but don’t dare suggest there could be a strike.
Even though there could be.
Neither the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario nor the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation are currently in a strike position but they have warned their members to get ready for a fight.
“We are facing the biggest threat to publicly-funded education in a generation. We have no choice but to confront these challenges,” said OSSTF president Harvey Bischof in a letter to members on Tuesday.
The OSSTF and ETFO joined forces with the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association to place a full page ad in papers across the province saying the Ford government has, “created uncertainty in education.”
I’d say if anyone has been creating uncertainty, it’s been these three unions and their fellow travellers over at CUPE.
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