{"id":26281,"date":"2019-11-30T09:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=26281"},"modified":"2019-12-04T07:32:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T12:32:51","slug":"the-ontario-english-catholic-teachers-association-move-closer-to-strike-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/30\/the-ontario-english-catholic-teachers-association-move-closer-to-strike-position\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ontario English Catholic Teachers\u2019 Association move closer to strike position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"article-body\">The Ontario English Catholic Teachers\u2019 Association (OECTA) met today with representatives of the government and Catholic school board trustees, to continue negotiations for a new collective agreement. A Ministry of Labour-appointed conciliator was present to assist with the talks. Seeing little prospect for further progress, OECTA has requested that the conciliator file a \u201cno-board\u201d report.<\/span><span class=\"article-body\"><br \/>\n\u201cIn spite of the challenges created at the bargaining table by the government, we came to the table hopeful that we could move forward,\u201d says OECTA President Liz Stuart. \u201cUnfortunately, while we continue to work constructively with the Ontario Catholic School Trustees\u2019 Association, the government is holding firm on their desire to make devastating cuts to Ontario\u2019s publicly funded education system. Premier Ford and Minister Lecce need to understand that these cuts are unacceptable to Catholic teachers, and unacceptable to Ontarians. Frankly, it is baffling they have not figured this out by now.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"article-body\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-body\">A \u201cno-board\u201d report would put Catholic teachers in a legal strike position 17 days after it is issued. \u201cOntarians know that Catholic teachers want to be in our classrooms with our students,\u201d says Stuart. \u201cBut they also know these classrooms need to provide a learning environment that will enable every student to realize their full potential. Premier Ford and Minister Lecce have already wasted enough of everybody\u2019s time and resources by failing to take negotiations seriously. If they genuinely want to help students succeed, they will stop trying to mislead Ontarians about the issues, and acknowledge that Catholic teachers cannot and will not accept an agreement that would be detrimental to the learning and working conditions in our schools.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"article-body\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-body\">OECTA members recently voted 97.1 per cent in favour of taking strike action if necessary, but the Association has not made any specific determination at this time about what potential job action might look like. \u201cDespite Minister Lecce\u2019s claims, Catholic teachers have been eminently reasonable throughout this process,\u201d says Stuart. \u201cOur goal remains to negotiate a fair agreement at the bargaining table. However, this government has a consistent record of only doing the right thing when they are under pressure from Ontarians. We hope this \u2018no-board\u2019 report will encourage them to get their act together sooner rather than later, and give their negotiating team the mandate to come to an agreement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-body\">OECTA represents the 45,000 passionate and qualified teachers in Ontario\u2019s publicly funded English Catholic schools, from Kindergarten to Grade 12.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario English Catholic Teachers\u2019 Association (OECTA) met today with representatives of the government and Catholic school board trustees, to continue negotiations for a new collective agreement. A Ministry of Labour-appointed conciliator was present to assist with the talks. Seeing little prospect for further progress, OECTA has requested that the conciliator file a \u201cno-board\u201d report. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[2202],"class_list":["post-26281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-ontario-secondary-school-teachers-federation-osstf"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 03:22:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26282,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26281\/revisions\/26282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}