Ontario’s major teaching unions have served notice to the Ford government to begin bargaining new agreements for more than 255,000 educators across the province.
The notices mean the province will now need to prepare to enter potentially bruising talks with the unions, a series of negotiations that take place every four years and come with potentially high-stakes strike action.
On Wednesday, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association, Ontario School Board Council of Unions and Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation all sent their notices to the government.