"We just do not feel comfortable having children in our buildings without all those safety protocols in place," Pereira said. A spokesperson for Education Minister Stephen Lecce said the government is ready to continue the contract talks. ", The TDSB is Canada's largest school board, serving roughly 246,000 students at 582 schools. Peel board spokesperson Carla Pereira said schools would not be able to perform basic safety procedures, such as checking fire alarms, checking school grounds or answering the phones, if police were to initiate a lockdown. OECTA, which was on a strike Friday alongside other teachers’ unions announced on Feb. 18 that if an "agreement is not reached, members will participate in rotating full withdrawals of service the week of Feb. Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. The York Region District School Board announced its plans to close as well. Updated: Ontario Catholic school teachers to hold province-wide strike on March 5 OECTA called off a scheduled strike in favour of negotiation last week News Feb 27, 2020 … To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). Teachers unions’ across the province have planned more rotating strikes for the week of Feb. 10, 2020. OSSTF: Halton District, Lakehead District, Thunder Bay Catholic District, Lambton Kent District, Thames Valley District, Waterloo Region & Waterloo Catholic District, York Region & York Catholic District, Kawartha Pine Ridge District school boards will be closed. Comments are welcome while open. ETFO: Avon Maitland, Durham, Durham Catholic, Hastings-Prince Edward, Lambton Kent, Peel, Rainbow, Thames Valley and Upper Grand school boards and Campbell Children’s School Authority will be closed. Parents are gearing up for another week of rotating strikes in Ontario. Thursday's announcement by the Toronto-area school boards came after several neighbouring boards voiced similar safety concerns in the event that education workers walk off the job on Monday. ... this week with a one-day strike happening on Tuesday. 5-year-old helps crack San Francisco Zoo theft case, YouTube follows Twitter and Facebook with QAnon crackdown, Earth breaks September heat record, may reach warmest year, Brampton woman arrested after allegedly posing as Air Canada employee in airline ticket scam, York Region moving to modified version of Stage 2 starting on Monday, Ford warns that Halton could be next, Man in custody after crash, shooting in Etobicoke, York businesses disappointed by restrictions, Whitchurch-Stouffville mayor on COVID restrictions. Public elementary school teachers at the Peel District School Board and York Region District School Board will walk off the job for a one-day strike. The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) has provided notice that, if no contract agreement is reached, OSSTF members will conduct a one-day full strike – withdrawal of all services – affecting YRDSB secondary schools on Tuesday, February 4, 2020.. Please note that CBC does not endorse the opinions expressed in comments. "This is not a decision that we made lightly, and we have explored every possible contingency plan to keep schools open. Haunt Manor is open for its 11th year and even though... © Copyright 2019 by Channel Zero Inc. | All Rights Reserved. Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. Another teacher at the Toronto school board said her students have been forced to eat their lunches on hallway floors, which were not being cleaned due to a lack of supervisors. The Peel board said it may be able to open its schools on Monday if a deal is reached early during this weekend's planned bargaining session. The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board also sent a letter to parents Thursday, saying it plans to close Monday if a strike proceeds "out of an abundance of caution for the health, safety and well-being of students.". School boards across Toronto and its suburbs say they will close their schools on Monday if a proposed strike by CUPE education workers goes ahead because of concerns over student safety. A province-wide strike will be held at public elementary schools across Ontario, impacting all of ETFO’s 83,000 members. Property Management Committee November 17, 2020 ETFO: Halton, Bluewater, Grand Erie, Ontario North East, Renfrew County, Superior Greenstone and Trillium Lakelands school boards will be closed. CBC is not naming the teacher because she is not authorized to speak about job action. The York board, which serves more than 126,000 students across 213 schools north of the city, said it has "no capacity to cover the skilled work" of its education workers. ETFO: Hamilton-Wentworth, Niagara District, Algoma, Greater Essex County, Limestone, Toronto, Toronto Catholic, Waterloo and York Region school boards as well as Bloorview, John McGivney Children’s Centre, KidsAbility, Moosonee, Moose Factory and Niagara Peninsula Children’s Centre school authorities will be closed. Some parents and teachers have said CUPE's work-to-rule campaign created unsafe and dirty conditions inside schools. High school teachers at the Peel District School Board will also be off the job on Thursday, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) confirms. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. Diwali November 14, 2020. All four major teachers’ unions have been without contracts since Aug. 31, and are all engaged in some form of job action. If the full strike occurs, #YRDSB elementary schools will … ETFO: All English public elementary schools will be closed. The Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO) will be staging a provincewide one-day strike on Thursday. For York Catholic District School Board, this translated to an impending strike … Audience Relations, CBC P.O. Teachers unions’ across the province have planned more rotating strikes for the week of Feb. 10, 2020. More concerning, she said, is young children are running past puddles of water underneath drinking fountains. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. Last week, members of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) held off on any job action due to exams but announced they would resume their weekly rotating strikes on Tuesday. ETFO: Kawartha Pine Ridge, Keewatin-Patricia, Lakehead, Near North, Ottawa-Carleton, Penetanguishene Protestant Separate, Rainy River, Simcoe County and Upper Canada school boards as well as Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre will be closed. "Please do not send your child to school," said the Peel District School Board in a Thursday statement. 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The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) says teachers at the Durham District School Board, the Halton District School Board, and early childhood educators at the Durham Catholic District School Board will walk off the job for a one-day strike on Monday. Here is a list of schools affected by the rotating strikes this week. If there is no agreement and the strike occurs, secondary schools will be closed to students on February 4, 2020. 24." Negotiations between CUPE and the province are set to resume Friday afternoon. It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. The sides have agreed to resume bargaining on Friday in hopes of getting a deal to avoid a full-scale work stoppage. "There's a Pop-Tart that's been there since Monday in the hallway outside that's just crushed," she said. The OSSTF represents 60,000 members including public high school teachers, occasional teachers, teaching assistants, continuing education teachers, early childhood educators. The union says its teachers would walk out at each board twice a week, starting Monday. "I don't believe there's any way the children will be safe in an open school without CUPE education workers in the building," said parent Sarah Donnelly, who called on boards to close if there's a strike. No strike action is planned for any school boards in the GTA on Friday but students in Toronto will be off for a PA day. "They should not be opening the school for the kids on Monday," said a teacher at the York board. The unions and the government have been accusing the other of being unwilling to bend on key issues including wages and class sizes.