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not affect CDSBEO schools. The good news for parents of students attending CDSBEO schools is that the OECTA has a tentative deal with the province and the Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association (OCSTA) that could bring an end to that union’s ownwork- to-rule job action. The OECTA announced Aug. 25 that a proposed agreement with the trustees’ asso- ciation and the educationministry is now on the table and ready to go to unionmembers for review and a ratification vote. OECTA President Ann Hawkins stated in a news release that the tentative agreement should “address the concerns of our members” and also protect their needs and also the needs of students. Specific details of the agreement are not available until after both the union and trustees’ association have ratified the deal. The OECTA announced that it will suspend its current work-to-rule campaign during the ratification period.The union represents more than 50,000 elementary and secondary school teachers in Ontario’s Catholic school districts.
Francophone students return to school next week while English students have until after the Labour Day weekend before they are back in class. Meanwhile, two unions representing teachers have been busy at the bargaining table over the summer. The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (EFTO) will up the ante starting Sept. 1 in its work-to-rule campaign against the provincial educationministry.The EFTO has been in a strike action situation for several months now but has limited its strategy so far to restricting its members to their ordinary classroomduties plus some extra-curricular volunteer activities. With the start of the new school year, the EFTO announced that it will continue nego- tiations with the province but will also now begin phase two of its work-to-rule campaign which will involvemore restrictions for ele- mentary teachers and occasional teachers on what their on-the-job duties will be. In Eastern Ontario, the EFTO action affects
operations at Upper Canada District School Board schools. The Catholic District School Board of
Eastern Ontario (CDSBEO) deals with the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Associa- tion (OECTA) so that the EFTO action does
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