With just weeks to go before the start of the school year and without a new collective agreement in place, Ontario’s teachers and education workers say job action isn’t off the table as negotiations hit...

CP24’s Andrew Brennan reports from the conference, where members of the teachers’ union are decrying what they say are major cuts by the Ontario government.

Ontario teachers and education workers will start the school year without a contract, but say they aren’t going to “jump” into job action. Although there had been hopes of reaching collective agreements by the time...

The Ford government is preparing an advertisement taking aim at teacher unions, as contract negotiations with five of them are stalled over a dispute about bargaining rules. A draft script of the proposed ad obtained...

The Ford government is accusing certain education unions of choosing to pause bargaining, a claim one union is calling “hogwash.” It is the latest development in what has become a messy round of summer negotiations...

Ontario education workers and parents are raising alarm bells over a province-wide educational assistant (EA) shortage as pre-school-year contract negotiations loom. Because schools are short-staffed, advocates say care is “rationed” across multiple classrooms, leaving vulnerable...

The province and teacher unions have yet to agree on what items will be bargained this summer, but have scheduled more dates to hammer out the issues.  “Although some progress was achieved, agreement was not reached on...

David Mastin, the president of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, talks about the increase of violence in schools and the struggle to keep teachers.

Contract talks between education unions and the province begin next week, with the elementary and Catholic teacher associations headed to the table Monday. The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation will bargain Tuesday, for both the...