Hargrove, B. High school teachers are off the job today at more than a dozen Ontario boards as part of their union's campaign of rotating one-day strikes.
The studies were limited by the fact that they were begun after the strike was over and by lack of cooperation from teachers. Ontario Teachers' Strike 1997. The first study found no effect of strikes on student grades. Although the studies did not focus on the effects of the strikes on teachers, informal contacts with teachers suggested that teachers after the strike were less idealistic about viewing teaching as a calling rather than a job. The Ontario teachers strike has been going on for a while, and the teachers’ unions continue to escalate the situation. Overall, the three studies suggest that strikes are most likely to have a negative effect on the academic learning of students in senior grades and in particular on learning in subjects like math and science where learning is cumulative. In previous talks earlier this year, ETFO said it was close to an agreement on several key issues, but that the government negotiators changed positions at the last minute. It was the largest such strike in more than 20 years.
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The strike … Next Thursday's strike would come nearly two weeks after a provincewide walkout involving nearly 200,000 teachers from all four of the province's major education labour groups. The most important of the strikes examined is the stormy Metropolitan Toronto strike that stretched from November 12, 1975 to January 19, 1976. Brison, David W.; Smith, Anthony H. Summarizing three research projects, this report evaluates effects on students of secondary teachers' strikes in Ontario.