Ontario English-language Catholic teachers will join their other publicly-funded school counterparts in holding a strike vote in the fall as negotiations with the province continue to stall.
OECTA says the scope of negotiations have not been finalized almost 15 months into the bargaining process and that solutions proposed by them have been “rejected out-of-hand.”“To continue making progress, it has become necessary to conduct a strike vote to demonstrate our Association’s solidarity and resolve,” Jansen in de Wal said.
The news comes a week after both the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario and the Ontario Secondary Teacher’s Federation said they would be calling for a strike vote sometime in mid-September or mid-October.All unions say the province has provided few opportunities for negotiation and that they failed to bargain in good faith when it sent out a July memo directing school boards to complete annual early screenings for students in Year 2 of Kindergarten through Grade 2.
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