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Teachers at Ottawa’s public elementary schools are set to join colleagues across the province in refusing to supervise extracurricular activities such as sports teams and clubs as their work-to-rule campaign escalates.
But Premier Kathleen Wynne says teachers may have their pay docked if they continue to refuse to perform their duties. Wynne met Friday morning with all three unions that are staging partial strikes at Ontario’s schools, and she emerged with a warning.
School boards have asked the province for permission to dock the pay of teachers and staff who aren’t performing their duties. The government won’t give that permission until Nov. 1, which would then trigger five days’ notice of the impending action, Wynne told a news conference.
“We have not yet given that permission, however, we cannot continue to jeopardize the health, safety and progress of our students and we need to do everything we can to motivate our partners at the table,” she said.
“If by Nov. 1 one of two things has not happened, then government will give permission: either tentative agreements are reached and all job actions are stopped, or all job actions are stopped and do not resume as talks continue.”
Wynne said she hopes deals can be reached by then because “eight days is a long time in the world of bargaining.”
Sam Hammond, president of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, said his members won’t respond to threats. Bargaining was scheduled to resume Friday afternoon.
Hammond said the union won’t yet back down on its plan for teachers to stop participating in extracurricular activities, starting Wednesday.
That would echo the situation in 2012-13, when elementary teachers stopped doing such activities for most of the school year and volunteers jumped in to run teams and clubs.
Elementary teachers have been escalating their work-to-rule campaign since last spring. They have cancelled field trips and refused to hold parent-teacher nights, send out class newsletters, update websites or fully fill out report cards. They won’t handle permission forms, collect money or help with fundraising, piling extra paperwork on principals.
Both sides in the dispute have blamed the other for the breakdown of bargaining. The contract is bargained provincewide on major issues, and individual school boards must reach agreement on local issues.
The three other unions representing high school, Catholic and French-language board teachers have ratified deals. They included wage increases and lump sum payments.
Support staff across the province at some schools — including office staff, educational assistants, early childhood educators, social workers and custodians — are also staging partial strikes.
The labour disruptions have caused inconveniences, although unions have vowed not to do anything that affects kids in class or jeopardizes safety. But some parents in Ottawa were upset when office staff at Ottawa’s public elementary schools began refusing to operate front-door security buzzers, prompting the school board to leave the doors unlocked at 60 schools.
— with files from The Canadian Press
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But Premier Kathleen Wynne says teachers may have their pay docked if they continue to refuse to perform their duties. Wynne met Friday morning with all three unions that are staging partial strikes at Ontario’s schools, and she emerged with a warning.
School boards have asked the province for permission to dock the pay of teachers and staff who aren’t performing their duties. The government won’t give that permission until Nov. 1, which would then trigger five days’ notice of the impending action, Wynne told a news conference.
“We have not yet given that permission, however, we cannot continue to jeopardize the health, safety and progress of our students and we need to do everything we can to motivate our partners at the table,” she said.
“If by Nov. 1 one of two things has not happened, then government will give permission: either tentative agreements are reached and all job actions are stopped, or all job actions are stopped and do not resume as talks continue.”
Wynne said she hopes deals can be reached by then because “eight days is a long time in the world of bargaining.”
Sam Hammond, president of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, said his members won’t respond to threats. Bargaining was scheduled to resume Friday afternoon.
Hammond said the union won’t yet back down on its plan for teachers to stop participating in extracurricular activities, starting Wednesday.
That would echo the situation in 2012-13, when elementary teachers stopped doing such activities for most of the school year and volunteers jumped in to run teams and clubs.
Elementary teachers have been escalating their work-to-rule campaign since last spring. They have cancelled field trips and refused to hold parent-teacher nights, send out class newsletters, update websites or fully fill out report cards. They won’t handle permission forms, collect money or help with fundraising, piling extra paperwork on principals.
Both sides in the dispute have blamed the other for the breakdown of bargaining. The contract is bargained provincewide on major issues, and individual school boards must reach agreement on local issues.
The three other unions representing high school, Catholic and French-language board teachers have ratified deals. They included wage increases and lump sum payments.
Support staff across the province at some schools — including office staff, educational assistants, early childhood educators, social workers and custodians — are also staging partial strikes.
The labour disruptions have caused inconveniences, although unions have vowed not to do anything that affects kids in class or jeopardizes safety. But some parents in Ottawa were upset when office staff at Ottawa’s public elementary schools began refusing to operate front-door security buzzers, prompting the school board to leave the doors unlocked at 60 schools.
— with files from The Canadian Press
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