ETFO STATEMENT ON REPEAL OF BILL 28

NOVEMBER 14, 2022 TORONTO, ON – The following is a statement from Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) President Karen Brown: “The Keeping Students in School Act, Bill 28, was an unprecedented attack on collective bargaining...

FORD GOVERNMENT KILLS CONTROVERSIAL BILL THAT ORDERED CUPE SCHOOL STAFF BACK TO WORK, AS TALKS CONTINUE

The bill that overrode CUPE members’ Charter rights and imposed a four-year contract on them officially never happened. As promised — in writing — the Ontario government on Monday repealed its controversial Bill 28 that...

ONTARIO WITHDRAWS LABOUR BOARD CASE SEEKING TO DECLARE CUPE’S WALKOUT ILLEGAL

Ontario’s labour relations board says the provincial government has withdrawn its application to have a walkout by 55,000 education workers declared illegal. The workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) walked off...

A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT ONTARIO’S BID TO END THE EDUCATION WALKOUT

Ontario Premier Doug Ford was staring down a gathering storm of indefinite school closures, a new law nobody obeyed and warnings of widespread, economy-disrupting work stoppages when he decided last weekend that there was only one way...