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The union representing Ontario’s 60,000 public high school teachers says it has reached a tentative agreement in its contract negotiations with the province and the Ontario Public School Boards Association.
The Ontario Federation of Secondary School Teachers announced the tentative deal Thursday morning and said the agreement must first be endorsed by local leaders at a meeting later this week before it is presented to all members for ratification.
OSSTF president Paul Elliott is expected to say more Thursday morning when he delivers a ‘state of the union’ address at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa.
The deal comes after two days of talks earlier this week. It was the first negotiation between the boards and the high school teachers in nearly three months.
The OSSTF is to resume negotiations with the Ottawa Carleton District School Board on local issues in late August or early September according to the latest labour update on the board’s website, posted earlier this week.
Meanwhile, Catholic high school teachers have already announced its first job action, at Bishop Belleau Catholic School in Moosonee, where students return to class several weeks earlier than other parts of the province. Teachers at that school were to begin a work-to-rule campaign Thursday, refusing to do any activities that fall outside their contractual duties. OECTA says it expects the job action to spread to more schools in the coming weeks.
OECTA says four more days of negotiations are scheduled for between Aug. 20 and 24. The union has established a website, TeachersMatter.ca, and begun a radio ad campaign to get its message out.
The OECTA talks involve non-monetary issues, said union president Ann Hawkins. Hawkins won’t say if OECTA is prepared to accept a deal without a pay hike, but points out teachers already had their wages frozen for the previous two years.
“I don’t know which other segment of society is going to look at a five-year wage freeze,” Hawkins told the Canadian Press. “We’re still struggling with the other issues, which are non-monetary items, and we’re hoping if we can get those solved then we can look at where we go on wages and benefits.”
Premier Kathleen Wynne says the government will not fund any salary increases for civil servants or anyone in the broader public sector — more than one million Ontario workers — until it eliminates an $11.9-billion deficit, which it plans to do by 2017-18.
“I know that there is consternation among the teachers’ ranks,” Wynne said Wednesday. “I’ve said all along this is a difficult negotiation. We’re in a difficult fiscal situation.”
However, unions representing nurses, police, firefighters, municipal employees and hospital workers in many Ontario communities have reached contracts this year with pay hikes or been awarded salary increases by arbitrators.
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario doesn’t return to bargaining until Sept. 1. ETFO president Sam Hammond will outline details of its work-to-rule campaign Thursday, and was talking tough at the union’s annual meeting in Toronto this week.
“I say to the government and I say to (the boards), you are in for the fight of your lives,” said Hammond.
– With files from the Canadian Press
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The Ontario Federation of Secondary School Teachers announced the tentative deal Thursday morning and said the agreement must first be endorsed by local leaders at a meeting later this week before it is presented to all members for ratification.
OSSTF president Paul Elliott is expected to say more Thursday morning when he delivers a ‘state of the union’ address at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa.
The deal comes after two days of talks earlier this week. It was the first negotiation between the boards and the high school teachers in nearly three months.
The OSSTF is to resume negotiations with the Ottawa Carleton District School Board on local issues in late August or early September according to the latest labour update on the board’s website, posted earlier this week.
Meanwhile, Catholic high school teachers have already announced its first job action, at Bishop Belleau Catholic School in Moosonee, where students return to class several weeks earlier than other parts of the province. Teachers at that school were to begin a work-to-rule campaign Thursday, refusing to do any activities that fall outside their contractual duties. OECTA says it expects the job action to spread to more schools in the coming weeks.
OECTA says four more days of negotiations are scheduled for between Aug. 20 and 24. The union has established a website, TeachersMatter.ca, and begun a radio ad campaign to get its message out.
The OECTA talks involve non-monetary issues, said union president Ann Hawkins. Hawkins won’t say if OECTA is prepared to accept a deal without a pay hike, but points out teachers already had their wages frozen for the previous two years.
“I don’t know which other segment of society is going to look at a five-year wage freeze,” Hawkins told the Canadian Press. “We’re still struggling with the other issues, which are non-monetary items, and we’re hoping if we can get those solved then we can look at where we go on wages and benefits.”
Premier Kathleen Wynne says the government will not fund any salary increases for civil servants or anyone in the broader public sector — more than one million Ontario workers — until it eliminates an $11.9-billion deficit, which it plans to do by 2017-18.
“I know that there is consternation among the teachers’ ranks,” Wynne said Wednesday. “I’ve said all along this is a difficult negotiation. We’re in a difficult fiscal situation.”
However, unions representing nurses, police, firefighters, municipal employees and hospital workers in many Ontario communities have reached contracts this year with pay hikes or been awarded salary increases by arbitrators.
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario doesn’t return to bargaining until Sept. 1. ETFO president Sam Hammond will outline details of its work-to-rule campaign Thursday, and was talking tough at the union’s annual meeting in Toronto this week.
“I say to the government and I say to (the boards), you are in for the fight of your lives,” said Hammond.
– With files from the Canadian Press
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