Few students turned up for class, with attendance as low as six per cent in certain regions. Chants included “Down with Bill 274″ and “Down with Davis.” To keep things orderly, some 700 teachers volunteered as marshals. Police later admitted that the teachers’ demonstration was “the largest and most orderly” in Ontario’s history. He covers a wide range of stories about northern Ontario. However, this soon reached its limits.On Dec. 10, 1973, Davis’ Conservatives tabled Bill 274, legislation that declared mass resignations illegal. The current strikes in Durham, Sudbury and Peel mark the Ontario …
Out of 105,000 teachers, around 90,000 joined the strike. Fast forward to today.
For two weeks this month, English public elementary schools in the province closed twice a week, because of a weekly provincewide strike, accompanied by rotating strikes that hit every public board on a certain day.ETFO said in an e-mail statement on Thursday that it would not be “releasing any information about phase 6 or what any further job action will look like at this time and as such, there is no comment from [president] Sam Hammond. We've been standing The issues are somewhat different, but there are striking similarities between the conflict today and during the 1997 walkout, which at the time was the largest teachers strike in Canadian history.Consider the political backdrop in 1997.
They fear the precedent a victorious strike may set for others in the labour movement. This has gone on for too long,” Mr. Lecce told reporters at Queen’s Park on Thursday.Joy Lachica, president of the Elementary Teachers of Toronto, a local of ETFO, declined to provide any details about ETFO’s job action next week.“I would say that you can be sure that we have everyone’s best interests in mind and certainly we want nothing more than to have the government meet us at the table to negotiate a deal that is positive and constructive for students, for families and for the future of public education,” Ms. Lachica said.At issue for the various education unions are class-size increases in high school, mandatory online courses for high-school students, funding for special-education supports, a hiring regulation that gives supply teachers with more seniority an edge in getting hired for long-term occasional and permanent teaching positions, and protection of the full-day kindergarten program and staffing.The Globe and Mail revealed this week that benefits funding is a main sticking point in discussions, and one of the issues that led to a recent breakdown in talks between ETFO and the government. Illegal strikes, they say, will result in steep fines, if not prison sentences, and are therefore not worth the risk. The union told its 83,000 members in a memo this week that it would reveal its “Phase 6 strike protocol” on Monday and that those actions would begin Wednesday, two days later.
The union also told its members in November not to electronically input data for Term 1 report cards as part of its job action. If you don't see it please check your junk folder.The next issue of Ottawa Citizen Headline News will soon be in your inbox.We encountered an issue signing you up. After the rally, teachers held a 30,000-strong march to Queen’s Park. In 2018, the Ontario government forced York University teaching assistants back to work after weeks on the picket line. Ontario secondary school teachers are in the midst of their first strike since 1997. “We’re out to protect classroom education.”1997 memories: Stalled bargaining with Ontario education workers evokes provincewide teachers strike Unlike Doug Ford, the teachers have the broad support of the public.
"There's an awful lot of parallels to what the government is doing now.
Few students turned up for class, with attendance as low as six per cent in certain regions. Chants included “Down with Bill 274″ and “Down with Davis.” To keep things orderly, some 700 teachers volunteered as marshals. Police later admitted that the teachers’ demonstration was “the largest and most orderly” in Ontario’s history. He covers a wide range of stories about northern Ontario. However, this soon reached its limits.On Dec. 10, 1973, Davis’ Conservatives tabled Bill 274, legislation that declared mass resignations illegal. The current strikes in Durham, Sudbury and Peel mark the Ontario …
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