The move by the OSSTF comes as hundreds of educators across the province fear that their jobs are on the line
Ontario’s high-school teachers’ union has filed notice to start bargaining – a move that comes as hundreds of educators across the province fear that their jobs are on the line.
Harvey Bischof, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation , said his organization sent letters to the school boards’ association and the government on Monday stating its intention to begin negotiations. His union is the first to do so.“The window to submit notice opened and we want to get to the table and put forward proposals that are good for students,” Mr. Bischof said in an interview on Monday.
The government has caused a lot of uncertainty in the education sector after it announced plans to increase average class sizes by one student in Grades 4 to 8, and to 28 from 22 in high school – eliminating an estimated 3,475 teaching positions across the province over the next four years as it tries to trim a deficit it pegs at $11.7-billion.
Education Minister Lisa Thompson has stressed that there will be no layoffs, and that teaching positions would be lost through attrition, meaning that educators who retire or voluntarily leave their job would not be replaced.
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