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An announcement was made yesterday by several Ontario’s largest school boards declaring another one-day strike, by not attending public elementary schools on Friday as a form of “political protest,” involves around tens of thousands of teachers who are extremely unhappy with the provincial government to have imposed new contracts on their job.
Consequently, the soon-to-retire Premier, Dalton McGuinty , made an announcement on Wednesday evening during a news conference cautioning the members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) to not observe any strike on Friday, while threatening that if they are not present in school on Friday, they will be participating in an “illegal” strike action. He alleged that “a strike on Friday would be an illegal strike” and “I know teachers are law-abiding. I know they do not want to break the law. And I am urging them not to.” McGuinty alleged that his government’s “full expectation is that teachers will be in school on Friday and every day in keeping with their employment obligations.”
McGuinty further added that his government will be alerting the Ontario Labour Relations Board through an application to “prevent the threatened illegal strike activity.” A candidate of McGuinty’s position, Kathleen Wynne, also mentioned at the same press conference that “the action that they’re taking is not within the bounds of the law, you know, and I think the premier is doing what he needs to do.” Charles Sousa, another candidate, alleged that “It’s illegal action and that’s not what the teachers should be doing. We have other ways by which they could do their protest.”
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