Using Bottled Water? Maybe it's Time to Think Again
Bottled water is everywhere these days: we use it at home, at our professional meetings, and in our schools.
Bottled water is everywhere these days: we use it at home, at our professional meetings, and in our schools.
Within the next couple of months you will receive notification that your ETFO local is holding a vote to ratify the preliminary submission for the upcoming round of negotiations.
It’s spreading: the number of school boards looking at moving grade 7 and 8 students into high schools is increasing.
On August 31, less than 200 days from now, every ETFO teacher and occasional teacher collective agreement will expire. It is only at the bargaining table that ETFO can bring about changes that positively affect every member at once.
re: Teachers Deserve a Safe Working Environment (December 2007)
New technologies have had a tremendous impact on learning. They have brought many benefits to students and teachers. But they have also led to some destructive behaviours.
Members of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan understand that they enjoy a superior array of benefits as part of their pension package. Recognizing that fact, members in a survey last year supported phased increases in their benefit contributions.
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To engage in social justice advocacy and activism we must first acknowledge that inequities exist. To work for equality means that we question why things are they way they are, why some people hold power and others don’t, why some can have their voices heard while others are silenced.