Update on Support Staff Central Table Bargaining – October 23, 2019 • ISSUE 20 Today OSSTF/FEESO representatives met with representatives from the government and the Council of Trustees’ Associations (CTA) at the Support Staff central bargaining table. A conciliation officer, appointed by the Minister of Labour at the request of... Read More
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OSSTF TTBU President’s Memo, October 22, 2019 – Local Bargaining Strike Vote Q&A; General Membership Meeting Information
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
2019-20 TTBU Branch Presidents’ Memo #3 – Bus registration for Nov 4 General Membership Meeting
All Member Mass Meeting – Branch bus sign up As was reported last week at Council OSSTF Toronto has arranged for buses to be available to transport Members to and from the All Member General Meeting on November 4th. To book a bus for your Branch, you must have at least 20 Members committed to […] Read More
2019-20 Informing & Engaging Members #8: Staffing update; School budgets; My School Day App; and more…
Staffing Update Over the last couple of weeks, the Board released about 40 of the 80 positions it had held back. This was done to ensure class size cap compliance by the deadline of October 31. As of today, there are still 126 teachers on the Recall List. Sixty-eight of these teachers are fully unplaced […] Read More
October 18, 2019 • ISSUE 19 Update on Central Table Bargaining
October 18, 2019 • ISSUE 19 Update on Central Table Bargaining This morning OSSTF/FEESO filed for conciliation for both the Support Staff and the Teacher/Occasional Teacher central bargaining tables. This means that the Minister of Labour will appoint a conciliation officer for each of the central tables. The officer will meet with... Read More
President’s Memo #5 – October 17, 2019: All Member General Meeting & Local bargaining strike vote called
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
Strike Vote in support of Central Bargaining Called
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
October 11, 2019 • ISSUE 17 Update on Support Staff Central Table Bargaining
October 11, 2019 • ISSUE 17 Update on Support Staff Central Table Bargaining OSSTF/FEESO met today with representatives from the government and the Council of Trustees’ Associations (CTA) at the Support Staff central bargaining table. OSSTF/FEESO continues to be frustrated by the management team’s unwillingness to engage in a meaningful... Read More
2019-20 TTBU Informing & Engaging Members #7: District General Meeting; EduACTion; Teacher math test; Toronto Raptors and more…
EduACTion Friday: Wear Red4Ed! Ontario wide walk in was a great success with hundreds participating across the city! To see pics of Toronto high schools’ participation, check out the Walk In For Education photo album on our Facebook page! The EduACTion workshop scheduled for October 24 is filling up quickly! A limited number of spaces... Read More
October 10, 2019 • ISSUE 15 Update on Teacher/Occasional Teacher Central Table Bargaining
October 10, 2019 • ISSUE 15 Update on Teacher/Occasional Teacher Central Table Bargaining OSSTF/FEESO met yesterday with representatives from the government and the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association (OPSBA). We are discouraged and disappointed that the management team came unprepared to engage in meaningful discussions. Even in the... Read More