More local teachers are taking part in strike votes this week, joining those in two other unions who began voting last week.
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario is voting between now and November 18th, to back their demands in the current round of bargaining with the province and local school boards.
The Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association will hold strike votes on Thursday and Friday of this week, and the union for French educators (L’Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO) will vote early next week.
The Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation and the Ontario School Board Council of Unions began voting on November 4th.
If union members approve a strike mandate, there is still a process to go through before any of them would be in a legal strike position.
The teachers’ last contracts expired before the start of the school year.
(Written by: Cindy Clyne)