The Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association will resume bargaining with the provincial government today, but there’s not a lot of optimism that progress will be made towards ending rotating strikes.
Three days of discussions between the province and the Elementary Teachers Federation ended late Friday with no new contract agreement.
The Ford government says the teachers’ main goal is a higher wage increase.
But the four main teachers unions insist they’re trying to protect the education system, by limiting class sizes and opposing an extension of e-learning courses.
Premier Doug Ford says the government is becoming impatient with the labour impasse and the continuing strikes.
Locally, the Huron-Superior Catholic School Board will be closing all their schools, both elementary and secondary, tomorrow when teachers from the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association will hold their one-day of protest.
And, the Rainbow District School Board will be closing all its elementary schools tomorrow and Thursday in the Sudbury and Manitoulin districts when the ETFO hosts another round of one-day strikes.
