We’re still waiting to hear if high school teachers from three school boards, including Rainbow, are striking illegally. The Ontario Labour Relations Board has been listening to evidence from both sides since last week on Thursday. The teachers’ union says the strike is legal because it followed all the steps before educators hit the bricks. The school boards say the walkout is illegal because teachers are striking over issues that can only be settled by the province and not them. The four week old strike at the Rainbow board has affected thousands of high school students on Manitoulin, Espanola and Sudbury.
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No word yet on legality of high school teachers' strike

Rocco Frangione
I've been a broadcast journalist for three-plus decades in Northern Ontario. I'm a graduate of Algonquin College's radio and television arts program and prior to that, an honours grad from Carleton University's philosophy program.
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