TORONTO, Ont. – The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation has temporarily suspended work action for Wednesday.
Teachers in eight school boards across the province – including the Toronto and Halton boards – were supposed to work to rule starting Wednesday, to protest the government’s Bill 115 which legislated a pay freeze and banned the right to strike.
Those affected school boards were: Toronto District School Board; Trillium Lakelands District School Board; Upper Grand District School Board; Wellington Catholic District School Board; Halton District School Board; Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board; Waterloo Region District School Board; Upper Canada District School Board.
Six public and two Catholic boards would have been affected by the move.
Ken Coran, the president of the Ontario Secondary School Teacher’s Federation, said teachers will continue to teach but will not attend staff meetings or meet with parents outside of school hours. They also will not be administering provincial standardized tests.
Many teachers have already stopped their voluntary extra-curricular activities.
Meanwhile, teachers with the Toronto District School Board will be in a legal strike position as of Wednesday.
The Globe and Mail reports teachers are planning job action, while union leaders are asking members not to submit marks on midterm reports into their schools’ central computer system, but to school administrators instead.
This may result in a delay of the release of midterm report cards, which is worrying grade 12 students who are required to submit their marks to universities at the end of the semester.
The board’s education director wants principals to prioritize grade 12 report cards in order to get them out quickly.
OSSTF temporarily suspending work action for tomorrow
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OSSTF:
Please define in print, your definition of “Work to Rule”.
Also please define “Extra Curricular Activities”.
I understand, from a current teacher, that teachers are not to enter school early and must be out of the school 15 minutes after classes are dismissed.
That is ridiculous.
I am a retired teacher.
To did my job, I arrived on time, not extra early. O.K. However, I needed to work after classes were dismissed to mark and prepare for the next day. I did not consider 9 to 5 or 5:30 or even 6 extra – when the work was needed for classes.
I did do a lot of coaching, organizing down hill ski evenings and mountain climbing – camping. Travel to Mount Washington, New Hampshire at my expense. Nobody told me too volunteer. That’s what I called extra curricular, (Over and above my teaching job.) Volunteering was not associated with my daily teaching job.
Doug Shone, Technology Head, Carleton Board of Education.