The Ontario government plans to offset the child-care costs that families face as unionized education workers stage more one-day walkouts across the province with no deal in sight.
With negotiations stalled and no contract talks scheduled, the union representing most of the province’s elementary teachers said Wednesday that it was poised to stage one-day strikes on Monday in Toronto, York Region and Ottawa, issuing its required five-day notice.
Meanwhile, the union representing the province’s public high-school teachers said members in Toronto and several other smaller boards across Ontario would leave their classrooms empty on Tuesday, in their latest one-day rotating walkout. They will be joined that day by teachers and education workers at all of Ontario’s English-language Catholic schools – both elementary and secondary – across the province.
For the first time in more than 20 years, all teachers’ unions in the province are involved in job action, from work to rule to one-day walkouts. The union standoff with Premier Doug Ford’s government over class-size increases, wage hikes and cost-savings measures appears to be entering a new phase.
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