Ontario’s Education Minister says the government is “prepared to invest” in front-line teachers in order to retain educators in provincial classrooms, after the government’s offer to a teacher’s union was revealed, exclusively, by Global News.
Key details of confidential contract negotiations between the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and the Ford government were leaked to Global News showing the two sides have a significant gap on issues of compensation, benefits and class sizes.
While ETFO proposed a yearly salary increase of 1.0 per cent plus cost of living, the Ford government countered with a yearly increase of 1.25 per cent — an offer the NDP called “insulting.”