Ontario’s public elementary and high school teachers are getting ready to start work-to-rule campaigns Tuesday.
The unions representing those teachers say they are frustrated by contract negotiations with the province.
Rob Hammond is president of the Near North Teachers local of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario.
He says the work to rule tactics will not impact students.
“We’re not doing some clerical things. We’re not collecting data for them. We’re not engaging in ministry initiatives and the EQAO testing,” he says.

He says important issues include full day kindergarten, class sizes and violence in the classroom.

Meantime, local OSSTF president Glen Hodgson says they’ll be setting up information pickets.

“Just to share with parents and the public information on our positions and the issues that are important to us so they understand what we consider to be reasonable asks in negotiations,” he says.

Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the government has been reasonable in contract talks, scaling back increases to class sizes and mandatory e-learning requirements.
But OSSTF president Harvey Bischof says those moves have just taken the education system from much worse to somewhat worse.

(with files from Canadian Press)

(photo by station staff)

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