President’s Memo, April 17, 2020 Yesterday, the TTBU Executive met with Branch Presidents via telephone town hall. Last night you received a memo that outlined most of what was reported on during that meeting.  This memo contains the remainder of what we reported to Branch Presidents yesterday. If you haven’t yet read yesterday’s Informing... Read More

Working from home update The TTBU Executive Members know you are each fully appreciative of the fact that we all continue to have full pay and access to benefits while so many around us do not.  We also know that the responsibility for fulfilling the obligations of those jobs to maintain student learning while managing […] 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. As you begin Week One in the emergency-remote-learning phase of this school year, we know you are busy working on programming for your students.  As teachers ourselves, we also understand... 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. I want to begin by once again assuring you that OSSTF Toronto TBU Executive is with you every step of the way in this incredibly stressful journey toward implementation of 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. 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