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GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
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Local mayors in Prescott-Russell urge their citizens to stay calm and continue to do their part during the COVID-19 pandemic in reducing the risk of infection by practising social- distancing, avoiding unnecessary travel and staying at home as much as possible. —supplied photo
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TEACHER UNIONS AND PROVINCE SETTLE
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
0445''&&40 MPDBM MFBEFST BSF scheduled for a teleconference session to review the contract terms and deter- mine whether or not to present them for a ratification vote by union members in .BZ%FUBJMTPGUIFQSPQPTFEDPOUSBDUXJMM not be released until after a ratification vote is held and the contract approved. Other unions 5IF0OUBSJP&OHMJTI$BUIPMJD5FBDIFST "TTPDJBUJPO 0&$5" XIJDISFQSFTFOUT UFBDIJOHTUBGGGPS0OUBSJP&OHMJTI$BUIP - lic school districts, ratified its new three- year contract with the ministry earlier in April. The new contract, covering the 2019 to 2022 school terms, includes a one-per-cent annual wage increase and cost-of-living increase to funding for existing contract benefits. The agreement between the ministry BOEUIF0&$5"JODMVEFTNJOJTUSZHVBS - antees of $67.3 million over the 2020- 2022 school terms to aid in creating “additional teacher positions to provide flexibility” for special education, mental health services, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs BU&OHMJTI$BUIPMJDTDIPPMT5IFSFXJMMCF no changes to current class sizes from Kindergarten to Grade 12. The province has also reached tenta- tive agreements with the Ontario Council PG&EVDBUJPO8PSLFST UIF"TTPDJBUJPO des enseignantes et des enseignants GSBODPPOUBSJFOT BOE UIF&MFNFOUBSZ Teachers’ Federation of Ontario.
All of Ontario’s teacher unions have now reached potential settlements with the provincial government. The Ontario Secondary School 5FBDIFST'FEFSBUJPO 0445''&&40 announced April 20 “tentative agree- NFOUTuXJUICPUIUIF&EVDBUJPO.JOJTUSZ and Ontario’s school board associations on new contracts for its members. The 0445''&&40SFQSFTFOUTUFBDIFSTBOE educational workers at high schools JOCPUI UIF&OHMJTIBOE'SFODIQVCMJD school systems. “These are extraordinary times,” TUBUFE)BSWFZ#JTDIPG 0445''&&40 president in a news release, referring UPUIF$07*%QBOEFNJDi8IFOXF began negotiations nearly a year ago, no one could have anticipated the situation we face today.” Bischof claimed success for the union’s public awareness campaign that highlighted opposition to ministry policy proposals for increasing class sizes and reducing teaching staff as part of the provincial government’s budget-cutting plans. i8IJMF UIJT UFOUBUJWF BHSFFNFOU does not satisfy all of our concerns,” he stated, “we recognize the current environment we are in and the need for students to have stability once this emergency is over.”
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