Minister of Education on Increased Escalation by ETFO
On March 9, 2020, Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education, issued the following statement in response to further escalation by ETFO (Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario):
“Now that the mediator has called us back to negotiate, the time is now for the union to cease escalation and focus on negotiating a deal that keeps students in class.
While ETFO has decided to escalate their withdrawal of service, our government is squarely focused on getting a deal – a positive deal that effectively freezes classroom sizes, provides full support for special education, maintains full-day kindergarten, and ensures merit-based hiring. Our focus is on negotiating so students can remain in class as opposed to being negatively impacted by continuing escalation by the teachers’ unions.
I remain fully committed to reaching a deal that keeps students in class, provides certainty to parents, and fairness to educators.”
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