presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution The teachers had a contract so the government determined that the strike was illegal. Suzanne Zwarun
Just reading the thread about the 1987 storm and it reminded me of the teachers strikes around that time. The exception was the Back to School Action Committee formed in July to get the schools open. permissions/licensing, please go to:There’s hasn’t been a full-blown strike or lockout involving Ontario’s secondary school teachers since 1997.There have been targeted job actions, such as work to rule campaigns that eliminated extracurriculars, but no full-fledged, full-scale walkouts.Here’s a list of Ontario school job actions going back to that mother of all teachers’ strikes:The teachers staged a one-day walkout in response to collective agreements imposed by the McGuinty government.They walked off the job and shut down schools, joined by teachers at five other boards across Ontario: Greater Essex in the Windsor area, Lambton-Kent in Sarnia and Chatham, Waterloo, Grand Erie in Brantford and Near North in North Bay.This was the climax of a series of rotating one-day strikes over the previous weeks protesting Bill 115, which allowed the province to impose labour contracts on teachers and limited their ability to strike.
School athletes face curtailed sports schedules— scarcely half the usual number of football teams will see action this season.Children with learning disabilities suffered a double handicap thanks to the strike. Some parents enrolled their youngsters this fall in country schools and others, who own cottages in B.C. All Please For questions regarding your subscription, call 1-888-622-5326 or As a teacher now I can totally understand why we are striking. The board eventually settled for 100 minutes in the first year of the contract and 120 minutes in the second year.Copyright owned or licensed by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited.
With time on their hands, some got into trouble. For as 83,000 public-school students returned to their classrooms (from kindergarten to Grade 12), it was both the last day and the first day. To access it, Experience anything and everything Maclean's has ever published — over 3,500 issues and 150,000 articles, images and advertisements — since 1905. Starting with 12 parents, the group grew to 300, collected 14,000 signa-tures on a petition to the government and once drew 300 to a rally. )The board locked out its elementary school teachers, who had been without a contract since August and had been working to rule since February.The board maintained it could not afford to pay teachers a raise of more than 6.5 per cent over two years.The lockout lasted 12 days and schools reopened after the Ontario government passed back-to-work legislation on June 2, 2003.A teachers’ strike shut down Catholic high schools across cottage country, affecting more than 7,000 students.After a week of rotating one-day walkouts, teachers launched its full-scale strike over wages and working conditions.That strike ended after three weeks with back-to-work legislation.More than 15,000 elementary school students with the Simcoe-Muskoka Catholic District School Board were off the job for two weeks.The strike ended when their union, which represented 800 elementary school teachers at 41 schools, agreed to voluntary arbitration.There were two months of strife across the region’s 108 public elementary schools.The 3,214 elementary teachers worked to rule. and could therefore claim residency, enrolled their kids in that province. Cathie Lang, whose 11-year-old boy has a learning disability, says that such children need an unvarying, repetitious routine in order to learn. But at least things were under way again and students, bored by their extended holiday, seemed pleased to be back.
It was back-to-school time in Calgary last week, four weeks later than the rest of the country—and about four times more chaotic. The extent of their frustration was apparent when a committee member suggested tossing a teacher a day off the top of a downtown highrise until the teachers signed an agreement.Hardest hit students were those in Grade 12 who were graded last spring on their incomplete year.
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So the first order of business when the teachers were finally ordered back to work was to return students to the desks they left last spring and sort out this year’s grades. Star Newspapers Limited and/or its licensors. The city’s 4,800 fulland part-time teachers walked off the job May 27, leaving stu-dents in the dark about whether they had passed or failed.
Negotiations are to continue and, if an answer isn’t found by Feb. 24, Labour* The Canadian Teachers’ Federation counts as Canada ’s longest teacher walkout the 58-day strike in Sudbury, Ont., earlier this year.Minister Les Young says he will appoint an arbitration board to come up with a binding decision by March 31. In all other respects, the Calgary Board of Education and the Alberta Teachers’ Association accepted the terms of an Aug. 7 proposal giving teachers a 10.5-per-cent pay increase retroactive to Jan. 1 and another 10.5-per-cent hike in 1981.