Last fall, after reporting that the province is facing a $24.7 billion deficit, Premier McGuinty and Finance Minister Dwight Duncan began to muse publicly about how to cut government costs.
When school begins next September 2014, 600 Ontario elementary schools will open their first early learning program (ELP) classrooms.
Disputes are part of life, and that means they are part of the normal ebb and flow of any workplace. Key to the underlying philosophy of our labour laws is the notion that when disputes arise, it is important that there be an orderly, accessible, well- reasoned mechanism f
Assessing student achievement and reporting that progress to parents is a big part of teachers’ lives today. That’s why, in the last round of collective agreements, ETFO worked hard to increase professional activity days for teachers.
Enforcement follows bargaining as summer follows spring.
Elementary teachers are professionals. They understand how best to organize their time and commitments to meet the educational needs of their students.
By the time this magazine reaches you, most teacher and occasional teacher locals will have negotiated collective agreements with their boards. The deadline for reaching agreements was April 24.
The provincial agreement that ETFO agreed to on February 12 contains important provisions that enhance our members’ professionalism.
On February 12, ETFO came to a difficult decision: we accepted a framework agreement for bargaining proposed by the provincial government.
ETFO’s campaign to Close the Gap is about standing up for fairness and equality for our students and ourselves.