Informing & Engaging Members September 24, 2020 Local Bargaining Update The TTBU Bargaining Team has worked with the TTBU Executive to identify Collective Agreement issues that have arisen as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic declared emergency. As in society in general, this state of emergency has revealed certain gaps in our... Read More
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Council Voting Instructions
Please see below for voting instructions for the September Council meeting. All voting will take place on the provincial OSSTF website in the Voting Centre. Read More
September 24, 2020 TTBU Council Package and Meeting Link
Please click this link to join the meeting. Any TBU member who wishes to attend may do so as an observer. Sign in to the meeting will open at 4:20 PM. You will enter a Zoom ‘waiting room’ and you will be admitted to the meeting by one of the Meeting hosts. The meeting will […] Read More
Important information about attending TTBU Council for Council Reps and all Members
Important information about attending TTBU Council for Council Reps and all Members The first TTBU Council Meeting of the 2020-21 school year will take place on Thursday September 24th via the Zoom platform. All Members are welcome to attend as Observers. To see how to sign in, read on. Only Registered Council Delegates can move, […] Read More
Queen’s Park notes for the week of September 14–18, 2020
From the Provincial Office of OSSTF NEW BILLS INTRODUCED BILL 200, EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS AMENDMENT ACT (SICK NOTES) Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner’s (Guelph) private member’s bill would eliminate the need for a doctor’s note for employees who call in sick to their employer. BILL 201, MAGNA CARTA DAY ACT (IN MEMORY OF JULIA MUNRO, MPP) […] Read More
President’s Memo school reopening update – COVID-19 self-assessment verification; Provincial OSSTF Member protection advisory
Bricks and Mortar, Day 1: COVID-19 self-assessment verification As Members of the Executive and our Health and Safety Inspectors went from school to school this morning, we saw first hand the impact of forcing schools to open before being fully ready. At almost every site we visited we saw students lined up down the block […] Read More
President’s Memo, September 16 2020 – School reopening update – synchronous learning; coverage/supervision; parameters for access to online classrooms; and more
This memo is composed by OSSTF TTBU President Leslie Wolfe and reflects the positions and actions of the OSSTF Toronto Teachers’ Bargaining Unit Executive. The TTBU has been engaged in ongoing meetings with the TDSB to work out how the TDSB will meet its obligations to do everything reasonable within its power to protect the […] Read More
OSSTF TTBU President’s letter to TDSB Trustees re lack of virtual school option for adult day school learners
Good Afternoon Trustees, I am writing to you today to inform you about a major inequity that is occurring as a result of decisions made by TDSB Management. Please know that I appreciate everyone is going all-out at this point, but what’s happening to adult learners – and their teachers as a result, is not acceptable […] Read More
President’s Memo – ACTION urgently needed to support Adult Day School colleagues
This memo is composed by OSSTF TTBU President Leslie Wolfe and reflects the positions and actions of the OSSTF Toronto Teachers’ Bargaining Unit Executive. The OSSTF Toronto Teacher’s Bargaining Unit Executive is asking you to join the Executive as we work to pressure the Board to provide the same opportunity to adult learners to learn […] Read More
OSSTF TTBU all-member health and safety survey DEADLINE EXTENDED
OSSTF TTBU all-member health and safety survey DEADLINE EXTENDED On Friday we sent the memo appended below. Thanks to members who noted that many do not yet know their classroom assignment. As a result the open period for the survey is extended to Monday, September 21 at 4:30 PM. The survey is set up so […] Read More