Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

The province’s largest teacher union has scheduled mass meetings with its members and a strike vote.

Sam Hammond, president of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO), said in a statement Wednesday that all 83,000 members will be invited to discuss central bargaining currently underway with the Doug Ford government.

ETFO members, which include all elementary teachers in the public school system in Ontario, will be asked to support the union’s bargaining priorities of more support for students with special needs, class size and class structure, the protection of full-day kindergarten and fair and transparent hiring practices, he said.

“Holding a central strike vote is one part of the legal bargaining process under Ontario labour laws,” Hammond said. “ETFO’s central strike vote will be held at information meetings conducted in the federation’s 76 locals during late September and October.”

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