This memo is composed by OSSTF TTBU President Leslie Wolfe and reflects the positions and actions of the OSSTF Toronto Teachers’ Bargaining Unit Executive. As you may be aware from messaging received from your principal, the TDSB has developed a protocol for accessing schools during the school closure period.  It is copied below, and attached... Read 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. Last night the Toronto District School Board issued a memo to all teachers.  In it are the Board’s plans for the coming week. On behalf of the TTBU Membership, I sent […] Read 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. Today the OSSTF Toronto Teachers’ Bargaining Unit Executive sent the following letter to TDSB Director of Education, John Malloy.  In it we express our deep disappointment with the... Read 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. OSSTF Toronto may just have the record for the longest sustained fight in education history.  We began revving up our campaign against potential Tory cuts to education 1.5 years ago with... Read More

President’s memo, January 30, 3030 – 2020-21 TDSB budget must not include cuts Dear Members, On behalf of the TTBU Executive I want to acknowledge each of you for having the strength to do the right thing, even in the face of personal sacrifice, and for standing strong and together in this fight we have […] Read More

Local strike vote results OSSTF Toronto Teachers Bargaining Unit Members have voted in unprecedented numbers to give the local bargaining team an overwhelming strike mandate. Ninety-one per-cent of TTBU Members cast a ballot resulting in a ninety-five per-cent vote in favour of job action in support of bargaining with the Toronto District... Read More

OSSTF TTBU President’s Memo, October 22, 2019 – Local Bargaining  Strike Vote Q&A; General Membership Meeting Information This memo is composed by OSSTF TTBU President Leslie Wolfe and reflects the positions and actions of the OSSTF Toronto Teachers’ Bargaining Unit Executive. Dear Members, We look forward to seeing all of you... Read More

October 18 President’s Memo – Local bargaining strike vote This memo is composed by OSSTF TTBU President Leslie Wolfe and reflects the positions and actions of the OSSTF Toronto Teachers’ Bargaining Unit Executive. On October 10th hundreds of OSSTF TTBU Members acted in solidarity with colleagues, parents and students all over Ontario... Read More

In a memo to Bargaining Unit Presidents this morning, the provincial President reiterated that central negotiations, at both the Support Staff and Teacher/Occasional Teacher tables, continue to progress extremely slowly. The management teams remain unprepared to engage in meaningful discussions on substantive topics, and that therefore the... Read More

At 10 a.m. this morning, Laura Walton, President of the Ontario School Boards Council of Unions, the representative of CUPE education workers, announced that they were giving the five days’ notice required by law before escalating their job action to a full walk out. OSSTF Toronto President Leslie Wolfe has spoken directly with John... Read More