This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The timetable of thousands of Ontario secondary school students might just be changing unexpectedly on Monday. The President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, Ken Coran, has declared that their negotiations with the provincial government have been completely unsuccessful in reaching out an acceptable agreement. Hence she now threatens that as a result, all members of OSSTF, spread over more that 20 school boards all over the province, including in Toronto, are going to start job actions in protest from Monday onwards.
These job actions were initially planned to begin from last week but then they were postponed for five days for giving it a try to negotiate with the McGuinty’s government for one last time. But now Mr. Coran clearly released a statement stating that from Monday morning onwards sanctions, that are not yet specified, will be imposed by teachers. However, it is highly assumed that these sanctions will include acts like withdrawing from extracurricular activities such as coaching, suspend parent-teacher meetings, and stop submitting student attendance records.
The OSSTF is a large union composing of a total 60,000 members and encompasses three unions that are all protesting against the debt-ridden government’s new anti-strike law. The law cuts teachers’ benefits, freezes the wages of most union members, and even allows the province to impose its own agreement if it doesn’t like what the unions and school boards negotiate. Unions have already taken the government to court, and professed that this law is unconstitutional and in violation of collective bargaining rights.
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