ONTARIO TEACHERS FACE PRESSURE FROM EDUCATION MINISTER TO USE BINDING ARBITRATION TO GET DEALS

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In hopes of avoiding strikes this fall, Education Minister Stephen Lecce is increasing the pressure on other teacher unions to join a pact that would see contract talks continue until Oct. 27 and send outstanding issues to binding arbitration.

“This is the win-win outcome we believe will benefit every child,” Lecce said Monday in Thornhill in another bid to convince unions representing elementary, Catholic and French-language educators to get on board with the concept.

The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) tentatively agreed to it Friday and the union’s 60,000 members will vote on it next month.