Canada: All 4 Ontario teacher unions now striking after French educators announce plans for provincewide walkouts

North America/ Canada/ 11.02.2020/ Source: globalnews.ca.

All four of Ontario’s major teacher unions will soon be holding weekly strikes after the group representing instructors in the French school system announced its intention to escalate its job actions against the provincial government.

The Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO) said it will begin holding provincewide walkouts once a week starting Thursday after contract talks with the government stalled.

AEFO has 12,000 members in the French-language elementary and high school system and had until now only been engaged in a multi-phased work-to-rule campaign.

Union president Remi Sabourin said a lack of progress at the bargaining table forced AEFO to escalate to “Phase 3” to send a message to Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government.

“Phase 3 is meant to convey to the government that we can’t just keep staring at each other pointlessly at the bargaining table,” he said in a statement.

Source of the notice: https://globalnews.ca/news/6521841/ontario-teacher-strike-french-educators-walkouts/