The lowest paid CUPE school support staff will receive an annual increase of about four per cent in the tentative deal reached with the government, says Education Minister Stephen Lecce. The agreement is being put...
With a strike deadline set for Sunday, November 20 at 5 p.m., bargaining between the Ontario government and 55,000 education workers is coming down to the crunch. Wage issues have already been settled at the...
Union leaders in Ontario have called off a strike by education workers, giving parents a last-minute reprieve. The decision to cancel a province-wide walkout by Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) workers came after weekend...
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Doug Ford government “will spend all weekend at the table” trying to strike a deal that would avert another strike, CUPE’s central bargaining committee said in...
Parents in Ontario were bracing Thursday for the possibility of a strike by education workers that would close schools to in-person learning next week. The Canadian Union of Public Employees gave a five-day strike notice on Wednesday after bargaining...
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 As promised — in writing — the Ontario government on Monday repealed its controversial Bill 28 that...
