TORONTO, Ont. – More than 4,800 elementary school teachers with the Bluewater, Algoma, and Halton school boards will be staging a one-day walkout, Wednesday.
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario said the one-day strikes are to protest controversial legislation that gives the provincial government the power to end strikes and impose a collective agreement on the teachers.
Federation president Sam Hammond has said Education Minister Laurel Broten can end the rotating strikes by repealing Bill 115 and letting local bargaining proceed without interference.
Broten said she’s “disappointed” by the continuing job action, but says the federation is in a legal strike position and that the government decided to let the strikes happen as long as they were only for one day at each board.
Tens of thousands of elementary students in eight Ontario school boards — including the province’s largest — had no classes Tuesday as their teachers staged one-day strikes.
The ETFO said 35,000 teachers, nearly half of the teachers it represents, hit the picket lines Tuesday in the ongoing labour dispute with the province.
Thursday’s walkouts involve school boards in southwestern, eastern and northwestern Ontario.
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So every board across Ontario went on 1 day strike.
Does this mean that the next 1 day strike is illegal?
Or does this mean the the teachers can go on strike for 1 day, and the governement wouldn’t do nothing about it?
The comments are not clear with dull letters and the light font setup.
Please correct the errors and make more bright and clear.
The old one was much better the new. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Your news report about the Halton board one day strike on the radio this morning is VERY inaccurate.
At the end of the report the commentater stated that this is the last board to have one day walk outs and that at this point every board across Ontario has had one. I work for Dufferin-Peel and I can assure you we have had no strike action or walk outs.Way to make teachers look bad.
@Erin – your comment is also somewhat inaccurate… you failed to mention that Dufferin-Peel is a Catholic school board. I hope that by this point, readers/listeners understand that the current strike action is by the teachers represented public union (ETFO), and therefore does not affect any Catholic schools/boards. TCDSB, YCDSB, etc also did not have any strike action these past 2 weeks. The media may not be clear in stating this point.