Ontario’s English public elementary and high school teachers will receive nearly 12 per cent in wage increases over a four-year contract, an arbitrator ruled on Wednesday.reached deals on new contracts with all its teachers’ unions in recent months, but all parties agreed that compensation would be decided by a third-party arbitrator.
This represents increases of 3 per cent for the 2022-23 academic year, 3 per cent for 2023-24, 2.75 per cent for 2024-25 and 2.5 per cent for 2025-26. “Having successfully reached central agreements with all education unions, our government has delivered stability and peace that keeps kids in class learning without the threat of interruption,” Education Minister Stephen Lecce said in an e-mailed statement on Wednesday.
ETFO and OSSTF said on Wednesday that the arbitration decision represented the highest percentage increase that teachers have received over the term of a contract in more than a decade.Karen Brown, president of ETFO, said the arbitrator’s decision highlighted the government’s failure to recognize and fairly compensate educators.
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