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 As promised — in writing — the Ontario government on Monday repealed its controversial Bill 28 that...

Ontario’s labour relations board says the provincial government has withdrawn its application to have a walkout by 55,000 education workers declared illegal.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...

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...

OCTOBER 31, 2022 TORONTO, ON – The following is a statement from Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) President Karen Brown: “On Sunday, it became known that the Ford government intended to table legislation that...

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022 TORONTO, ON – The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) strongly believes Bill 124 circumvents the legal framework for negotiations set out by the School Boards Collective Bargaining Act, which requires parties to engage...

AUGUST 12, 2022 More than 800 public elementary school educators will attend the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) between August 15 and 18, 2022, at the Westin Harbour Castle...