Elementary Teachers' Federation Reaches Tentative Agreement for Education Workers
On
September 22 the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO)
announced that it had reached a tentative central agreement for its
3,500 education worker members with the Council of Trustees'
Associations representing school boards and the Ontario government.
ETFO bargains at two central tables: the Teacher/Occasional Teacher Central Table (on behalf of approximately 80,000 teachers) and the Education Worker Central Table (on behalf of approximately 3,500 designated early childhood educators, education support personnel, and professional support personnel). The tentative central agreement reached is for ETFO's 3,500 education workers. An agreement has not yet been reached for ETFO's 80,000 teacher and occasional teacher members. Strike votes for teachers are being held in the coming weeks across the province.
ETFO President Karen Brown said, "After a prolonged and difficult bargaining process, we are pleased to be able to bring forward a tentative central agreement to our education worker members that addresses their key bargaining goals. As we have been reminding the Ford government all along, tentative agreements are possible when all parties are genuinely engaged and when you give the legal bargaining process a chance."
Details
of the agreement will be shared with ETFO education worker members
after a meeting is held with their local presidents and chief
negotiators. A ratification vote is being scheduled; details of the
vote will be shared with members once they are confirmed.
"With the assistance of the conciliator appointed by the Minister of Labour, we will continue to work to reach an agreement that is fair for our teacher and occasional teacher members," added Brown. "We are focused on getting government cuts off the table and on improving members' working conditions and students' learning conditions."
This article was published in
Number 54 - September 27, 2023
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