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TTBU Strike Bulletin, February 16, 2020 – Full strike Feb 21 update; Making Niagara Falls Maple Leaf Gardens 2.0; Strike rules update

Plans for full-service withdrawal on Friday February 21 The OSSTF Toronto Executive  is in the process of planning for next Friday’s full service withdrawal action.  In spite of what you may have heard, plans have not yet been finalized. Further information to come. Planning for Ontario Federation of Labour Action, Saturday February 22... Read More

Teacher’s Resource for Deeply Rooted

OSSTF Toronto’s Black, Indigenous, and Workers of Colour (BIWOC) committee in support of Black Heritage Month, has developed curriculum resources and lesson plans for use in Grade 9 Canadian Geography, Grade 11 English, Grade 12 Challenge and Change in Society and Grade 12 Equity and Social Justice: From Theory to Practice. This... Read More

TTBU Informing & Engaging Members, February 13, 2020: Next school year; IWD: Education takes the lead; Bursaries & awards; Applying for OSSTF standing committees; Egale survey on dating violence

International Women’s Day March – Education fight takes the lead! The organizing committee of Toronto’s International Women’s Day March are supporting our fight for quality education by asking educators to lead this year’s annual march. Save the date, and plan to join in! The march leaves OISE, 252 Bloor St West at 1pm on Sunday […] Read More

TTBU Central Strike Bulletin, February 11

You are at the forefront of our messaging Keeping Members at the forefront of messaging continues to achieve our shared goal of ensuring the public understands the reality of our fight. Unlike strikes that are simply a battle over wages and working conditions, our fight is against a political ideology that has at its base […] Read More

TTBU Central Strike Bulletin, February 7, 2020; Strike notice; Ad-gate: Zero degrees of separation; Making history; Numbers don’t lie;

OSSTF rotating strike and info picket action for next week Today Provincial OSSTF delivered notice of continuation of the rotating strike actions.  The next full-service withdrawal involving OSSTF Members in various Districts (not ours) will take place on Thursday, February 13.  You will find a complete list of Districts scheduled for this... Read More

TTBU Informing & Engaging Members, February 6, 2020 – Strike pay cheques delivered; New member conference; Protest at PC Policy convention; and more…

Strike pay update: Cheque delivery, reporting missing cheques, December 11 cheques With the exception of TTBU centrally assigned members whose work locations are still being verified, all strike pay cheques for TTBU picket duty performed December 4 and January 21 will have been delivered by the end of today. If you fulfilled picket duty for... Read More

TTBU Central Strike Bulletin, February 5, 2020: Support grows as our fight continues; #forthefakepeople; Collective action & standing united

Support grows as our fight continues The Toronto and York Region Labour Council continues to promote and encourage engagement  by members of other unions in the fight against education cuts. Early this week there was a well attended Heads of Unions meeting at which education cuts and our fight back took priority. Unions across the […] Read More

TTBU Central Strike Bulletin, February 2, 2020: 2020-21 staff allocation; Strike rules update – OSSLT; Srike date correction; Allies & members get creative!; Doug Ford & Stephen Lecce’s sad state of affairs: in the media;

Staff allocation, 2020-21 The TDSB has confirmed that they are currently modeling allocation on a number of different possibilities, because Boards have not received information from the Ministry of Education that the allocation formula is anything other than 28:1. Per the President’s Memo issued on January 30th, it is the position of... Read More