It’s the beginning of a long process as the Ontario government tries to hammer out new deals with unions representing more than 243,000 education workers, many of which feel like they have fallen behind over the last number of years due to provincial legislation capping public sector wage increases at one per cent.
The unions will use their initial bargaining sessions with the province, in part, to sort through which issues will be negotiated at the central table and which issues can be negotiated directly between schools boards and their local unions. Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association President Barb Dobrowolski tells CP24 that the central issues are typically monetary, with compensation and class sizes usually the most contentious topics.
“We stand ready to meet with any union, 24/7, without exception,” the spokesperson said, noting that invitations have already been sent out for future bargaining sessions.Collective agreements in the education sector have typically been for a three year term but in a memo sent to unions earlier this month, Lecce said that the government was seeking feedback on a longer four-year timeline.
“We have to recognize the needs of students and that face-to-face is the best way to learn,” the OSSTF’s Karen Littlewood added. “We have to avoid any push towards privatization and any push towards the degradation of the public school system. We have to make sure we are funding public education as an investment because that is what it is.
Teachers want more money (after returning from their 2.5 month break)
Hey cp24 do me a favour and show me even 1 teacher making 100 grand a year, let alone the blatant lie you're spreading that over 2/3 do. CP24 is Fox News Canada. By and for the Cons! Shame on you! And shame on rogers rogershelps for continuing to fund this abomination
Nice political baiting cp24. They're are ZERO indications of anything to do with a strike... Race baiting. Political baiting.. you are the enquirer of the news world
Of course, we’re not throwing endless dollars at them to do nothing. So clearly that’s unacceptable.
Cda's now a land of[manufactured] chaos=distraction? No news on millions of middle Cda/workclass suspended from job 4 refusing experimental gene therapy [for a 99.8 recovery bug] & food shortage that PM said on Mar/31/22 is enroute. Systems[eg Travel] food chain etc being busted.
It must be negotiated that completing the report cards is part of the teacher's job. When the Catholic board was on work to rule for over a year we had no way to assess student's progress.
How many times are you going to repost this? Doug Ford really has you on his side to fan the flames of hate towards educators. Disgusting.
Ford: Don’t negotiate through the media….Hey CP24 manufacture a crisis for us….
Teachers went on rolling strikes just before pandemic. Get these whiny educators out of teaching. Parents have had enough
Why doesn't the union add a no strike clause in their collective agreement?... Healthcare workers have to deal with it so why don't teachers?
Strike! Strike! Strike! Strike!
How many times are you going to run this story? You couldn’t make it more clear that fordnation and Sflecce paid you to publish this misinformation piece over and over again. onted isn’t even in a position to strike. Stop it already. You’re just stirring up 💩 at this point.
Gimme Gimme group wants more, every cpl years. Their mantra of ' It's for the Kids' continues to fool voters. The teachers unions are just sucking up $$ while you the people get 1% if lucky. They made out like bandits the last 15 years.
Let’s watch as teachers come here and have temper tantrums!!
CUPEOntario Educational Assistants are CUPE members too. CUPE Members are NOT TEACHERS!
And the teacher bashers are back
At 10 years, teachers in Ontario make, on average, $10K more than a professional engineer with 10 years experience. They also get summers off, a pension, benefits etc. perspective
They should be considered an essential service.
The people who teach children deserve security. I’m usually against unions (especially where the capital can just move) but reality is you are putting skills on the next generation here. Albeit my experience in elementary school was pretty bad and I was LD
Every year teachers demands strike will it ever end?
Oh for god sakes here we go again with the teachers Unions and the government. Stay tuned for another shit show and your kids not going to classes again
fordnation SylviaJonesMPP what about the nurses!
Lazy teachers who during covid provided next to zero teaching now at the trough as the people who pay those wages try to keep afloat. Common sense and brains something teachers do not have
It is really tiresome of people thinking teachers are pieces of crap out to get more money. Stop using our profession as a means for insult and showing how idiotic you can be. We work, we get paid , same as anyone else. WE do not set our vacation time and length of school day
When was the last time you have seen teachers union not on strike 🪧
Leachers. Done fuck all for the past 3 years while many of them sat on the sunshine list
It's for the kids
Geez seems like every other year. None of us make what we need or should be making. Get to work.
Those that are bitching, please go be a teacher then and shut up.
Every year same story
Here’s an idea. Save money by ditching the catholic school board, Eliminate their now redundant boards. Boom. Big savings. Why should my tax dollars pay for Catholic schools?
Putting themselves before their students
Overpaid bums with a pension to die for, ya let's support a strike, unbelievable!!!
I hope they change how they teach kids…. 1) bring back failing…to get them prepared for real life 2) bring back competition…to get them ready for real life 3) start telling special needs parents that their kids aren’t the same. Force kids to be accountable for their progress.
fordnation 'Ontario has begun negotiations with teacher unions. Here is what you need to know' Fire all the teachers Contracts. Pay well Hire only the best !! .
What we need to know is that the teachers usually get whatever they want.
Here you go again! Once a year..parents didn't got enough
It’s very simple pay the teachers more $$ and reduce class sizes. These kids now are learning nothing. They are anti social lazy zombies.
Big Doug will talk tough, but will ultimately cave and give them what they want and more. Deep down he’s a Liberal.
BREAKING: Parents terrified of having to actually be around their kids in the event of a strike.
What gov't gave in and agreed to have the expiration of collective agreements at ---- end of August? Essentially holding the gov't and parents hostage Guessing it was the prior gov't. One that even paid for the hotels, and pizza launches for unions members during negotiations
Teachers and there unions absolutely suck
Annual teachers crying at the end of summer
Here's what you need to know Conservatives will negotiate in bad faith and try to fuck teachers over. Conservatives harbor lifelong hatred for education because they were never smart enough to make the honor roll.
What you need to know, and hopefully you learned through the pandemic, we and our children are royally screwed without teachers.
All I know is it will NEVER be enough. For every government that has been in power, it has NEVER been enough. Poor babies ...
Why don't they teach writing in school anymore? I'm shocked that young people only know how to print.
They will have a work action 'for the children' that can only be fixed by them getting raises.
Abolish teachers unions
Teachers and nurses. My goodness.
Really don’t want know….usual…
But it’s all about the kids right?! Teachers only threaten strike with a conservative government because they won’t pay off the unions …. If a teachers is incapable of doing their job on their wages now what is a few more dollars going to do?! So sick of the whiners!!!!
Here's what you need to know: Dougie will waste time until September rolls around and then he'll blame the teachers for delaying the beginning of the school year…
You need to homeschool if possible.
Overpaid by a longshot.
Teachers are overpaid
Teach the Teachers how to teach math
1% pay raise isn’t enough for these greedy teachers ?
Put the volleyball budget at zero and we all win
No more volleyball. There's enough lesbians and chunky armed bullies in Ontario. We don't need them to have higher self-worth than the gluttonously already have. Take out the fckin volleyball.
Teachers need to hold the line. Ford inexplicably slashed education spending (as well as healthcare spending) during a global, deadly, pandemic. That is unacceptable. Any further cuts would be absolutely devastating.
Non unionized teacher should be allowed to compete with unionized teachers.
You guys doing what you do best! Negotiations have just started and you clowns are talking about a strike already. Sad. Really sad.
Quality of teaching has decreased over the year's....plenty of useless tool's being protected by the union's. In need of some serious changes.
strike or dont strike, does it matter? Homeschool your kids!
It’s only July. Settle down with the fear mongering
Not enough traction of teacher hate on your first post so you felt the need to repost it? You are definitely thirsting for something here. onpoli onted
Fear mongering for engagement
You should be ashamed of yourselves. Cut from the same cloth as ambulance chasers.
They should all be fired and rehired on individual contracts. Must sign a form pledging not to teach Critical Race Theory, intro to Transgenderism. Also most things sexual till grade 4. Let kids be kids. Don’t overwhelm them with stuff that doesn’t apply to 99% of them.😎
This is the media's way of gaslighting education workers when striking is not even a thought right now. Negotiations have just begun. Perhaps the media outlets owned by the provincial government are being told to turn the public againsts educators once again. Surprise, surprise!
OMG STOP
For the kids, of course.
You have posted this article at least 3 times since yesterday, (that I have seen). You really are trying to upset teachers and parents! Or are you doing this b/c you are told to do so by Ford & his handlers.
Overpopulated classrooms, no extra after school programs, 2 or 3 ADHD distracting lunatic kids per class, inflation at 9%, dated teaching materials, helicopter parents. Public school is a mess for teachers and students.
Isn’t there always ? How is this newsworthy, it is expected
Teachers strike as often as they fail their students.
Teachers don’t like to strike. Believe or not it is never our goal.
In case you missed it, cp24 has been ordered to tweet this again by their American conservative media owners. Keep people angry in a bid to divide and destroy public education. CdnMediaFailed
I like how the uneducated and non-parents are attacking the teachers. 😂
A womans place is in the kitchen .
Headline should read: Parents terrified of parenting if teachers strike.
It's been hard for teachers.. It's been hard for parents.. It's been awful for kids. Hope there is a fair deal so we can move forward.
As long as everyone is fully vaccinated I don't see the problem.
Having 3 current and 2 retired ETFO in my family I can say that public education is a frikken joke. Hate it. Despise it.
Ah yes the yearly teachers complaining about having summer off and good pensions and benefits
Running this same BS headline two days in a row? Stop stirring up problems. They just started negotiating…. It isn’t even close to the stage of a strike. Both sides want a contract without disruptions.
Trudeau's boss has a new product for you to try.
Ahhh teacher unions, the piggiest of the pigs representing the clueless. Good work 👍
LOL teachers have been on strike almost every year I've been alive.
Will there be any news on the vaccine (gene therapy) fatalities of these 3 doctors and many others? Swept under the rug. Rug is now a mountain.
Sure two years of part time classes work from home full pay...................
There will be strikes. Doug’s fault.