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Ontario’s public elementary teachers say they will step up their job action “in the next few days” if the province doesn’t return to the negotiating table.
Talks between the Ontario Elementary Teachers Federation and the province and the Ontario Public School Boards Association broke down on Friday when the province walked away from the table. Premier Kathleen Wynne and Education Minister Liz Sandals said the teachers had been an offered a deal similar to one already accepted by Catholic teachers and public high school teachers. Those deals, on central issues such as salary and prep time, have not been ratified by teachers.
Speaking to reporters in Toronto Monday afternoon. Sam Hammond, president of the Ontario Federation of Elementary Teachers, blasted the premier for “negotiating in the media” and vowed the job action would continue.
“ETFO will continue its work-to-rule strike action and it will escalate it in the coming weeks unless they — OPSBA and the Liberal government — return to the table and return soon,” Hammond said.
Hammond said the union has already determined what the stepped-up actions will be, but would not say what they were.
Hammond said working conditions for elementary teachers are fundamentally different than high school classes, and the other deals don’t apply.
“I want to stress that the issues we have been focusing on at the central table are related to ETFO working conditions and our student learning conditions, not salary,” Hammond said. “ETFO wants to continue bargaining, but we need to know that OPBSA and the government will not continue trying to impose deals that don’t meet the unique needs of elementary teachers and occasional teachers and elementary students in this province.”
Ontario’s 78,000 elementary teachers have been without a contract for more than a year and stepped up their work to rule campaign at the start of this school year. The teachers are refusing to plan field trips, won’t participate in meet-the-teacher nights, won’t answer work-related emails outside school hours and won’t participate in classroom fundraising activity.
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Talks between the Ontario Elementary Teachers Federation and the province and the Ontario Public School Boards Association broke down on Friday when the province walked away from the table. Premier Kathleen Wynne and Education Minister Liz Sandals said the teachers had been an offered a deal similar to one already accepted by Catholic teachers and public high school teachers. Those deals, on central issues such as salary and prep time, have not been ratified by teachers.
Speaking to reporters in Toronto Monday afternoon. Sam Hammond, president of the Ontario Federation of Elementary Teachers, blasted the premier for “negotiating in the media” and vowed the job action would continue.
“ETFO will continue its work-to-rule strike action and it will escalate it in the coming weeks unless they — OPSBA and the Liberal government — return to the table and return soon,” Hammond said.
Hammond said the union has already determined what the stepped-up actions will be, but would not say what they were.
Hammond said working conditions for elementary teachers are fundamentally different than high school classes, and the other deals don’t apply.
“I want to stress that the issues we have been focusing on at the central table are related to ETFO working conditions and our student learning conditions, not salary,” Hammond said. “ETFO wants to continue bargaining, but we need to know that OPBSA and the government will not continue trying to impose deals that don’t meet the unique needs of elementary teachers and occasional teachers and elementary students in this province.”
Ontario’s 78,000 elementary teachers have been without a contract for more than a year and stepped up their work to rule campaign at the start of this school year. The teachers are refusing to plan field trips, won’t participate in meet-the-teacher nights, won’t answer work-related emails outside school hours and won’t participate in classroom fundraising activity.
bcrawford@ottawacitizen.com
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