The School Board Collective Bargaining Act Explained
The ETFO podcast Elementary spoke to lawyer Howard Goldblatt, founding partner of Goldblatt Partners LLP, who knows the history of the Act inside and out.
Collective Bargaining
Our Solidarity and Commitment to One Another Can't Be Defeated
It’s been an eventful few months for the education sector and the labour community in Ontario and I want to begin by saying thank you.
Our Victories Prove We Are Stronger When We Work Together
With bargaining, public campaigns, government submissions, legal challenges, the return to in-person programs at the provincial office and all of the other work that ETFO does in service to our members, the fall has been an extremely busy time.
Back for a More "Typical" School Year
Educators are at the heart of Ontario’s public education system and as you settle back into your classrooms for what everyone hopes will be a more typical year in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic, I want to start by saying thank you.
We Will Push the Government to Invest in Public Education
With the school year ramping up and educators settling into your classrooms, I want to start by saying a big thank you.
ETFO Bargaining Goals
ETFO develops bargaining goals for each round of collective bargaining for its teacher, occasional teacher, Designated Early Childhood Educator, Education Support Personnel and Professional Support Personnel members.
Bargaining ETFO Collective Agreements
Heather Aggus looks at ETFO’s recent history of challenging and pushing back against successive governments in Ontario.
Persevering Through the Challenges
The 2019-2020 school year was one for the history books. We started the year bargaining with a Conservative government determined to make massive cuts to public education and ended with a global pandemic and our members having to adjust to emergency distance learning over the course of just a couple of weeks.
In Support of Collective Bargaining
A positive outcome of the current provincial government’s first year in office has been increased public engagement by ETFO members around education-related issues.
Demystifying the Bargaining Table
Kimiko Inouye provides an informative overview of what happens at the local and provincial bargaining tables.