Ontario Premier Doug Ford is seen after a meeting with Canada's provincial premiers in Toronto last month.Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province’s education unions are holding parents “hostage” and his government won’t budge on a 1-per-cent cap to salaries.
"I think they don’t have good leadership, the head of the unions. They want to argue no matter what premier, no matter what government is in power,” he said at an unrelated announcement at Queen’s Park.Asked if his government will rule out back-to-work legislation, Mr. Ford said, “We’ll see.For the first time in more than two decades, the main education unions in the province are all involved in job action at the same time.
Meanwhile, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation has said members in Toronto and several other smaller boards across Ontario would leave their classrooms empty on Tuesday, in their latest one-day rotating walkout. At issue are class-size increases, mandatory online courses for high-school students, wage hikes and other cost-savings measures.Mr. Lecce has repeatedly maintained that the main stumbling block in negotiations has been wages, with the unions asking for a 2-per-cent increase in the face of the government's wage-cap legislation meant to limit public-sector pay increases to 1 per cent.
No!! You Are!!
He is absolutely right. Every year teachers want to bargain.
They wouldn’t have to take such measures if Ford wasn’t such a liar. He said’Im for the people’. Now he’s screwing everyone. What people are you for Doug?
Maybe it is time for merit based pay and teachers as contractors, not on contract
Very true, get back to teaching...union sucks
Out of touch with reality, that is our Doug.
Maybe Fat Boy Ford should lead by example and roll back the 14% increase he just gave himself and all of the corporate welfare he has handed out , that has added over 3 billion dollars to the deficit.
You have our support mr. Ford!!
Seems the best professionals, in most professions, are usually paid well. If a society values their children, it should employ and pay for the best teachers while holding them to a very high standard. If a society wants cheap teachers, it reveals how how children are valued.
Ford is holding them hostage. He came in and tried to ruin public education. Probably wants to go private so his rich buddies get richer and our students fall to the level of U.S. students.
That's a lie. How about this government holding autistic kids in limbo for funding for treatment?
More like the other way around!
If hostage were an appropriate term Ford shares the blame equally.
Let’s increase the taxes so we can pay these overpaid teachers
Nice try Douggy! Your statements are about as reliable as Trumps!
Greed and entitlement it's never enough and when this is all over we can look forward to it happening again when their contracts come due.
Teachers were never happy. Not with this govt or any of its predecessors incl. NDP. Stay the course Mr. Ford.
Poor management by the Cons
Doug is correct
It's ALL YOUR fault Doug ford!!!!
Classless Teachers / Union Greedy and do not care about families (a lot of single parents) who have to find childcare, lose time from the jobs (that pay on average 1/3 of Teacher salaries). Selfish and self seeking Parents are 'hostage' to these Unionized Teachers.
They are. Unions need to be held accountable for hurting our children's education.
canukcookie The teachers & teacher's union only care about on thing, themselves. In the union world nothing is more important than the union, everything & everyone else is secondary!
canukcookie Doug Ford telling the truth & stating the facts like a BOSS!
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One term is enough for this Premier,, He's for the rich NOT for the little guys....!!
Can somebody start a Patreon to buy poor fat Doug a neck, please?
fordnation is holding kids education hostage with cuts & mocking a failed US education program class sizes mandatory online course to graduate w/ no regard that it has low success rates Teacher are standing up for their rights & kids rights to a education
Education standards before deficit reduction
I’m a parent and my kids say that they notice how school just isn’t the same! Classes are huge and kids can’t focus! Too much distractions! Take away from big corporations! Don’t take away from the students you prick!
This premier is a disaster.
Foolish statement , no one is buying it . The Ontario. Cons. Continue to make poor choices.
Some of the replies are frightening. Yes, it’s all the teachers fault. Wow.
Absolutely they are... and they always do! I lost a lot if respect for teachers and their unions in the 90s when my 3 kids struggled through strikes to get an education.
I’m so tired of the union playing these games.
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Why do teachers have the right to strike at all?
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An employer's failure to meet cost-of-living increases in your salary is effectively a pay cut. We all know this, whether we're in the private, public, or not-for-profit sectors.
'Hostage': A cost/benefit analysis : Cabinet policies hurt students the most : 14% fewer teachers for 5110 days : 4-yr olds - JK until 2033. A few strike days in 2020 vs. 5100 days of improved learning conditions. Cabinet's mandate is stale and must be altered to get a deal.
No Union Leaders aren't the Premier of the province is trying to cram everyone into larger class sizes roll back your 14% increase to your cronies doug and put the money where it needs to be.
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What a Drama queen. There hasn’t been work action for over 2 decades. We sign every 3 years, and for over 20 years it’s run relatively smooth, until this guy came in. He’s got more drama than a high school cafeteria.
Outside of a small number whose support is ideological in nature most parental support for teachers unions is due to frustration and child care concerns caused by strikes that drag on not agreement with their demands. Deal with that and the ON government can sit them out
Doug Ford doesn't have a clue what parents think. He's more tied up in 'winning' against teachers and students than looking at what is right for Ontario.
Parents feel exactly the same way, thank you.
Parents know that isn't true.