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On Monday morning, members of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association started their “work to rule” job action to try and pressure the government. Their actions — including not doing their jobs and not following the rules — are an attempt to get the government to give in to their demands presumably after parents complained en masse.
Yet, before they were even through a full day of job action, the union had announced they were going on strike claiming the government was bargaining in bad faith.
It’s tough to take OECTA and their president, Liz Stuart, seriously on that point when you call a strike so quickly.
“Our members are very clear, they will not accept anything that devastates our world-class education system here in Ontario,” Stuart said.
So what won’t they accept?
They won’t accept a 1% raise like the rest of the public service, they won’t accept a change calling for all high school students to complete two online courses between Grade 9 and Grade 12 and they will not accept any change to class size. Like their counterparts at the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, the Catholic teachers open and closing position is “leave everything the Liberals gave us in place or we strike.”
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See Also:
(1) Both Trudeau and Doug Ford are finally acting like adults (Jack: I think I’m going to be sick.)
