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The job action by support staff at Ottawa’s Catholic and French-language schools have ended as their union reached a deal with the province on Monday.
But provincewide negotiations continue with the unions representing elementary teachers and support staff at the province’s English-language public schools, who were still on partial strike.
Education Minister Liz Sandals announced Monday that Ontario has a tentative deal with members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, representing some support staff at boards across the province, including Ottawa’s Catholic School Board and two French-language boards.
“That’s our good news today,” said Mardi de Kemp, a spokesperson for the Ottawa Catholic School Board, where CUPE represents office administrators, education assistants, library technicians and early childhood educators who work in kindergartens.
The CUPE job action has stopped pending ratification of the contract, the union announced Monday. At the Ottawa Catholic board, office staff slowed down paperwork and worked to rule. At other boards across the province where CUPE also represents janitors, there were complaints about filth and garbage piling up.
The CUPE deal, announced at noon on Monday, is net zero, which means any salary increases are offset through savings elsewhere, Education Minister Liz Sandals said in a statement. Terms of the contract won’t be released until it is ratified, said Sandals, who was not at the legislature as staff said she was “actively” supporting bargaining.
There was a media blackout on bargaining with the two other unions staging job actions in Ontario schools, but the government hinted at another possible deal.
“At this time, bargaining continues and we look forward to being able to provide an update later today,” a spokeswoman for Sandals said in a statement.
Premier Kathleen Wynne had given all three unions a deadline of Nov. 1 to stop the partial strikes or employees could face a dock in pay or other penalties.
Although the deadline has passed, deputy premier Deb Matthews said Monday the government had not yet sent a letter enabling boards to dock pay. The province was engaged in “active negotiations” instead, she said.
In the meantime, support staff represented by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) continued their strike action. In Ottawa some parents are upset because office staff refuse to operate security buzzers at the front door of public elementary schools.
The 78,000 members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario also continue their partial strike. Teachers have withdrawn from extracurricular activities and field trips, won’t fill out report card comments and have stopped doing some administrative tasks.
The province struck deals earlier this school year with the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association, the OSSTF high-school educators and the French union AEFO.
Those central deals have since been ratified, and included a total of $2.5 million in cash payouts for unions to help cover their negotiating costs. The payouts have drawn criticism, but Sandals has defended them as necessary because a new bargaining system made this round quite lengthy.
It was not known if the government offered to pay CUPE’s negotiation costs for the deal reached Monday.
With files from The Canadian Press and National Post
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But provincewide negotiations continue with the unions representing elementary teachers and support staff at the province’s English-language public schools, who were still on partial strike.
Education Minister Liz Sandals announced Monday that Ontario has a tentative deal with members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, representing some support staff at boards across the province, including Ottawa’s Catholic School Board and two French-language boards.
“That’s our good news today,” said Mardi de Kemp, a spokesperson for the Ottawa Catholic School Board, where CUPE represents office administrators, education assistants, library technicians and early childhood educators who work in kindergartens.
The CUPE job action has stopped pending ratification of the contract, the union announced Monday. At the Ottawa Catholic board, office staff slowed down paperwork and worked to rule. At other boards across the province where CUPE also represents janitors, there were complaints about filth and garbage piling up.
The CUPE deal, announced at noon on Monday, is net zero, which means any salary increases are offset through savings elsewhere, Education Minister Liz Sandals said in a statement. Terms of the contract won’t be released until it is ratified, said Sandals, who was not at the legislature as staff said she was “actively” supporting bargaining.
There was a media blackout on bargaining with the two other unions staging job actions in Ontario schools, but the government hinted at another possible deal.
“At this time, bargaining continues and we look forward to being able to provide an update later today,” a spokeswoman for Sandals said in a statement.
Premier Kathleen Wynne had given all three unions a deadline of Nov. 1 to stop the partial strikes or employees could face a dock in pay or other penalties.
Although the deadline has passed, deputy premier Deb Matthews said Monday the government had not yet sent a letter enabling boards to dock pay. The province was engaged in “active negotiations” instead, she said.
In the meantime, support staff represented by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) continued their strike action. In Ottawa some parents are upset because office staff refuse to operate security buzzers at the front door of public elementary schools.
The 78,000 members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario also continue their partial strike. Teachers have withdrawn from extracurricular activities and field trips, won’t fill out report card comments and have stopped doing some administrative tasks.
The province struck deals earlier this school year with the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association, the OSSTF high-school educators and the French union AEFO.
Those central deals have since been ratified, and included a total of $2.5 million in cash payouts for unions to help cover their negotiating costs. The payouts have drawn criticism, but Sandals has defended them as necessary because a new bargaining system made this round quite lengthy.
It was not known if the government offered to pay CUPE’s negotiation costs for the deal reached Monday.
With files from The Canadian Press and National Post
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