Tentative deal reached by OPSB Association and Ontario government

“Ontario’s public high school teachers have reached a tentative agreement with the Ontario government and the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association.

The OSSTF posted a note early Thursday morning on its Facebook page announcing the tentative deal that still must be ratified by the union’s 60,000 members. The agreement will be presented to local union leaders at a meeting later this week, according to the OSSTF post.

No details of the deal were announced, ” wrote Jane Taber for The Globe and Mail on Thursday August 20, 2015.

Taber continued, “Other provincial teachers’ unions, including those for Catholic and elementary teachers, are still bargaining — and their members are poised to go out as the school year begins.

Unions representing 115,000 teachers across Ontario remain at the bargaining table with school boards, but one union official says they haven’t even started talking about the government’s demand for “net zero” wage increases.

Premier Kathleen Wynne has said the government will not fund any salary increases for civil servants or anyone in the broader public sector — more than one million Ontario workers — until it eliminates an $11.9-billion deficit, which it plans to do by 2017-18.”

Read the full article here.

Raymond Matt, CFP, CLU, TEP, CHS

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