Member input is a critical piece of ETFO’s 2026 goal-setting process. In the Spring of 2025, ETFO will be obtaining member input about 2026 central bargaining issues through our online all-member survey and random telephone sampling. In the Fall of 2025, member focus groups will be conducted.
ETFO has contracted a research firm, Strategic Communications (Stratcom) to assist with the surveying process. Members will receive links to the online survey by email from Stratcom on May 5. If you have not received a survey link, please email us at cbsurvey@etfo.org
ETFO’s Collective Bargaining (CB) Standing Committee is comprised of ETFO members from across the province who are appointed to carry out assigned tasks, or “Terms of Reference”, related to collective bargaining. The CB Committee is structured so that there is a member from each ETFO bargaining unit type (i.e., Teacher, Occasional Teacher, Designated Early Childhood Educator and Education Support Personnel/Professional Support Personnel) on the Committee.
The CB Committee’s Terms of Reference includes creating ETFO’s bargaining goals for each round of negotiations.
Member input about ETFO’s 2026 and bargaining goals will be reviewed by the CB Standing Committee in November/December 2025. Based on that review, the CB Standing Committee will develop draft central bargaining goals.
The draft central bargaining goals will then be reviewed by ETFO’s Collective Bargaining Services staff.
After having reviewed the input of ETFO’s Collective Bargaining Services staff, the CB Standing Committee will create ETFO’s 2026 bargaining goals. The goals will then be forwarded to ETFO’s Provincial Executive.
ETFO’s Provincial Executive consists of fourteen members who are elected by delegates to the ETFO Annual Meeting. The Provincial Executive is comprised of:
- the president;
- the first vice-president;
- two vice-presidents;
- the ETFO representative to the Ontario Teachers’ Federation; and
- additional executive members as necessary to complete an executive of fourteen.
At a meeting in January 2026, the Executive will receive the 2026 central bargaining goals from the CB Standing Committee. The Executive will then submit those goals to ETFO’s Representative Council for approval.