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The strike, which is set to affect 40,000 high school teachers and 15,000 support staff, was the largest-scale for /*this group of Ontario teachers since 1997, said Ontario Secondary School ...
Some 55,000 workers in the education sector in Ontario, the country's largest province, went on strike on Friday after failing to reach an agreement with the provincial government on better pay ...
The strike was the largest teachers' strike to ever occur in North America at the time, with walkouts by over 126,000 teachers resulting in the closure of nearly all of Ontario's 4,742 public schools.
The next day on 31 October, Ontario's Progressive Conservative government introduced the Keeping Students in Class Act to preempt a strike by the union. The bill passed on 3 November along party lines with the Progressive Conservatives voting in favour and the Liberal and New Democratic parties voting against.
Ontario Teacher Candidates’ Council v. Ontario (Education), 2023 ONCA 788 is a Canadian constitutional law decision concerning s. 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, being Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982. It concerned the constitutionality of Ontario's requirement that teachers pass a proficiency test in mathematics.
Ontario's education minister Stephen Lecce continues to call on Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) members to "end the illegal strike."
In 1997, the organization saw thousands of teachers and supporters on the front lawn of the Ontario Legislature in Toronto for a strike. [3] The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan lost $19 billion in 2008. [4] Between 2008 and 2009, net assets fell to $87.4 billion from $108.5 billion. [4]
In 2011, the Ontario College of Teachers was criticized for keeping secret the names of teachers who were allowed to teach in Ontario classrooms even after committing crimes against children. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Toronto Star found that out of 49 cases published by the Ontario College of Teachers in 2010, 35 such cases kept the teacher anonymous.