Hundreds of thousands of parents and students should brace for more labour uncertainty in schools after unionized support staff are set to walk off the job again. Laura Walton, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees’...
Karen Brown, president of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, worries the province is creating “a pathway towards privatization” by diverting public funds she says are better spent lowering class sizes and increasing in-school supports....
NOVEMBER 14, 2022 TORONTO, ON – Once again, the Ford government has delivered a fall economic statement that ignores students, educators, and other education workers. Despite expected growing surpluses over the next few years, the...
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...
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 As promised — in writing — the Ontario government on Monday repealed its controversial Bill 28 that...
