The following memo was emailed to all OSSTF Toronto Teacher members for whom we have accurate email addresses.  To ensure you are in receipt of email updates, please update your email registration on our website, and send the updated email address to your Executive Officer. Mediator Reconvenes Talks Early this afternoon Peter Simpson, the... Read More

Dear Members This memo was emailed to all members for whom we have current email contact information.  If you did not receive it, check your junk mail and/or make sure you update your email registration on our website, and then send us a copy of the updated email for inclusion on our distribution list. Thank […] Read More

Additional sanction placed on TDSB: OSSTF Pink Letter A strike is not the only sanction OSSTF may employ to put pressure on the employer during bargaining. Also available is the ability to stop the board from hiring any new employees from outside the bargaining unit. In OSSTF we call this the “Pink Letter” (so-called as […] Read More

Dear Member Over the past few weeks the TDSB has, yet again, found itself in a state of turmoil. We have a Director who, up until the announcement of her replacement, was quacking and limping her way to the obscurity of a political appointment to research into research;  a new Executive Superintendent of Employee Services, […] Read More

The Bargaining Team has met with the Board twice in the past week, making some limited progress on some minor issues.  While there were few dates scheduled prior to the start of our job action, on the announcement of our withdrawal of selected services strike, the board suddenly found additional dates to meet with us.  […] Read More

Dear Member It has come to our attention that many principals have issued memos indicating that members must engage in Professional Development related to Health and Safety, in some cases with a deadline included, and that members must report completion of this training. OSSTF legal counsel advises that the law requires the employer to... Read More

November 3, 2015 • CB Issue 61 Support Staff Central Table Negotiations Update As was reported in CB Issue 60, the Minister of Education informed the public through a media conference yesterday evening that she has given consent to the Council of Trustees’ Associations to reduce the pay of OSSTF/FEESO support staff members after five […] Read More

OSSTF Toronto Local Bargaining Bulletin #3 Bargaining Update – Job action to commence as announced The OSSTF Toronto Teachers Bargaining Team met yesterday with the Toronto District School Board. No meaningful progress was made. Members of OSSTF Toronto Teachers’ Bargaining Unit will begin the Withdrawal of Selected Services job action... Read More

November 2, 2015 • CB Issue 60 Support Staff Central Table Negotiations Update Many of you will have heard media reports today that a support staff central table tentative agreement has been reached between CUPE, the Crown and the Council of Trustees’ Associations (CTA), and that a teacher central table tentative agreement has been reached... Read More

Strike Instructions to OSSTF Toronto Teachers Bargaining Unit Members This is not a work to rule. This is a selective service withdrawal and is designed to impact students and parents as little as possible. Our goal is to put pressure on school administrators so that they will, in turn, put pressure on TDSB officials to […] Read More