It is going to be another week of turmoil at both public and catholic schools this week. Members of the ETFO will be picketing today and tomorrow as the public elementary schools are closed to students.
OXFORD COUNTY - Downtown Woodstock will once again be packed with teachers walking the picket lines today and tomorrow.
ETFO members are doing rotating strikes today that impacts Thames Valley. Then tomorrow they are staging a Province wide strike, meaning schools will be closed to Elementary students. This means all public Elementary schools are closed to students for both days, leaving parents scrambling to find child care.
Meanwhile, the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association is taking extra administrative action starting on Tuesday.
This means, OECTA members will only be performing their scheduled teaching and supervision duties and will not accept additional tasks or assignments.
Here is a complete list of ETFO labour action dates:
February 7th, the following school boards will experience labour disruption at Elementary Schools:
Niagara, Toronto, Toronto Catholic, Bloorview, John McGivney Children's Centre, Kidsability, Waterloo, York Region, Moose Factory, Algoma, Greater Essex County, Hamilton-Wentworth and Niagara Peninsula Children’s Centre school authorities
Monday February 10th, the following school boards will experience labour disruption at Elementary Schools:
Thames Valley, Upper Canada, Upper Grand, Avon Maitland, Durham, Lambton Kent, Rainbow and Halton.
Tuesday, February 11th:
All English public elementary schools in the province will be closed for a one-day strike
Wednesday, February 12th, the following school boards will experience labour disruption at Elementary Schools:
Algoma, Greater Essex, Limestone, Niagara, Renfrew County, Toronto, Waterloo, Moosonee and Moose Factory District School Authorities and Bloorview, John McGivney Children’s Centre, KidsAbility and Niagara Peninsula Children’s Centre School Authorities
Thursday, February 13th, the following school boards will experience labour disruption at Elementary Schools:
Grand Erie, Hamilton-Wentworth, Keewatin-Patricia, Lakehead, Ontario North East, Ottawa-Carleton, Peel, Penetanguishene, Protestant Separate, Simcoe County, Superior-Greenstone, Trillium Lakelands and York Region School Boards, Bluewater and Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre.
President of the ETFO Sam Hammond issued the following statement last week in regards to the labour disruption.
"ETFO, school board associations and the government were close to an agreement on Friday that would have been good for students, educators and public education. It would have ensured stability in public elementary schools this week. Then, late that day, the government’s negotiators changed course and tabled impossible options they knew ETFO could not accept.
I want to set the record straight. Unlike the Minister of Education, I was at the bargaining table last week so I know what was discussed. Despite what Minister Lecce is claiming, salary was not addressed during those negotiations, and government negotiators did not sign a letter of commitment to maintain the Kindergarten model.
On Friday, the government’s position around special education funding remained less than half the priority and special education funding negotiated in 2017. This funding was of great benefit to vulnerable students.
An agreement was also within reach on maintaining a long-standing regulation that ensures fair and transparent hiring processes for teachers. Government negotiators then introduced demands for major concessions around fair hiring."
Minister of Education Stephen Lecce issued the following statement on Friday in response to the continued escalation by the Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO) and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation.
"Continued escalation of job action by the teachers' unions has gone on far too long. Students across the province are being hurt by the withdrawal of services and loss of classroom time. Parents expect all parties to meet at the negotiating table and have meaningful, student-centric discussions. I call on union leadership to continue to work with us, in good-faith, to end these strikes, and focus on reaching a deal that keeps our students in the classroom where they belong."
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