ETFO Bargaining Goals
ETFO develops bargaining goals for each round of collective bargaining for its teacher, occasional teacher, Designated Early Childhood Educator, Education Support Personnel and Professional Support Personnel members.
Collective Bargaining
Bargaining ETFO Collective Agreements
Heather Aggus looks at ETFO’s recent history of challenging and pushing back against successive governments in Ontario.
Persevering Through the Challenges
The 2019-2020 school year was one for the history books. We started the year bargaining with a Conservative government determined to make massive cuts to public education and ended with a global pandemic and our members having to adjust to emergency distance learning over the course of just a couple of weeks.
In Support of Collective Bargaining
A positive outcome of the current provincial government’s first year in office has been increased public engagement by ETFO members around education-related issues.
Demystifying the Bargaining Table
Kimiko Inouye provides an informative overview of what happens at the local and provincial bargaining tables.
Talking About Local Bargaining
Voice in conversation with chief negotiators Shelly Jan, Elizabeth Kettle and Diego Olmedo.
2019 Collective Bargaining
ETFO has a long history of advocating for and negotiating significant improvements to educator working conditions and student learning conditions. There’s no doubt that our collective efforts have helped make Ontario’s public education system one of the best in the world.
Bill 115 Victory
In April, ETFO and other education unions won a major victory at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The court found that the Ontario government’s Bill 115, imposed in the fall of 2012, was a violation of the collective bargaining rights of education unions.
Your Federation
ETFO leaders met in October for the fall Representative Council meeting. At this, the first of three meetings held every year, the council elects members to sit on the Council Steering Committee, the Selection Committee for Standing Committees and the Budget Committee.
Bargaining for Better Schools
I’d like to start by thanking you. It’s been a long and stressful 14 months of central bargaining for members.