The following is a joint statement issued April 3 by ETFO, AEFO, CUPE, OECTA and OSSTF. Teachers and education workers in Ontario have formed a common front to defend a strong publicly funded education system...

If you haven’t yet been asked to sign a pledge card to support the fight for quality public education, you soon will be. Signing the cards and talking to members is what the ETFO Member...

ETFO Locals in Action is a periodic photo feature gleaned from Twitter posts made by ETFO members and locals across Ontario.

The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) will spearhead a campaign to ask Conservative MPPs to put pressure on Premier Doug Ford to derail education cuts and anti-labour policies, the CBC reports. Union leaders will ask...

Many of the more than 50 unions affiliated to the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) came together at the Power of Many: Take Back Ontario Conference on March 25 to stop the government’s pro-business agenda...

Editorial columnists are starting to laugh it up at Education Minister Lisa Thompson’s comments on the “resiliency” students in overcrowded classrooms will supposedly develop. “We’re hearing from professors and employers alike that [students are] lacking...

ETFO Locals in Action is a periodic photo feature gleaned from Twitter posts made by ETFO members and locals across Ontario.

The Ford government’s plans to cut education funding are running into heavy opposition from across the province. ETFO President Sam Hammond has asked all members to support a rally for public education on Saturday, April...

The president of ETFO’s York Region Teacher Local says violence against the local’s elementary teachers has increased 452% since 2013. Citizens packed a meeting in Newmarket on Mar. 19 to find out what could be...

Violence against elementary school teachers is spiking, with one in five teachers reporting in a 2017-2018 independent study of Ontario educators,supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, that a student had...