Court challenge
Fred Hahn, president of CUPE Ontario, announced Andrew Lokan, from the law firm Paliare Roland, has been retained to begin legal proceedings challenging Bill 115’s constitutionality. Brampton Guardian Torstar News Service file photo
I am a TDSB teacher and this is my rant:
Warning: the following is the humble opinion of one Ontario teacher who may not know a whole lot about politics but does know a whole lot about what’s fair and what’s happening to us teachers doesn’t seem fair. This week, Dalton McGuinty, Tim Hudak, Laurel Broten, and a whole bunch of other Ontario politicians will […]
Student trustees at Queens Park
Ontario Student Trustees Association to Hold Press Conference Monday Aug 27th OSTA-AAECO is the provincial group representing English and French Student Trustees on Public School Boards. The press conference will address the direct negative impact that the proposed Liberal legislation will have on students. Twitter @OSTAAECO. Holding a press conference on Monday at Queen’s Park […]
Unions will fight legislation
Ontario’s public education unions, OSSTF, CUPE and ETFO will fight proposed legislation in the courts. In a joint press conference Thursday, August 23, 2012 in Toronto to Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario, Sam Hammond, President of ETFO and Ken Coran, OSSTF President insisted that democracy and the rights for free collective bargaining. The presidents, […]
presidents respond to legislation threat
Education Minister’s ‘Bullying Tactics’ Have No Place Anywhere in Ontario’s Education System: CUPE Ontario President “We need to work together to find a solution” that respects the work education workers do, and is suitable for students, families and workers, says Fred Hahn Toronto, ON – The Liberal government’s proposed legislation released yesterday that would strip school […]
Posturing for votes?
“Liberal rush to rule out free collective bargaining doesn’t add up “ -Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:09 am Defending Public Healthcare blog The Ontario Liberal government has largely justified its rush to prevent free collective bargaining in the education sector by claiming that without such legislation junior teachers will get their normal increment steps on the wage grid […]
‘attack’ on public sector
Contract road map an ‘attack’ on public sector, Ontario teachers union head says The president of the province’s largest teachers’ union accused the Ontario government of an attack on educators and rejected its proposed road map for a new contract. Sam Hammond, head of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, made the comments […]
school staffers want to talk
Ontario high school teachers are willing to return to the bargaining table if the province invites them, even as education unions denounce a controversial deal with Catholic teachers. The olive branch from the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation came Friday — one day after Queen’s Park reached an agreement with the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ […]
Budget showdown averted but cuts could come during summer break.
At 7pm at 5050 Yonge /North York Centre subway/ Toronto’s public school board will pass a budget for the coming school year. It APPEARS that plans to cut the staff at TDSB’s Gender-Based Violence Prevention office have been delayed until August when the Ministry of Education will conduct a review to deliver $9m […]
Ontario Archbishop chooses the wrong cause to play the martyr
This week, Cardinal Thomas Collins, the Archbishop of Toronto, issued a long statement protesting against the Liberal Ontario government’s announcement that its anti-bullying legislation, Bill 13, will include specific language protecting school groups supporting gay students. In an important reversal, the bill now states that the students must be allowed to call their clubs Gay-Straight […]