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Category: Jobs and Employment
Premier: Frustration behind school boards’ move to reveal bargaining details with ETFO
Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario calls OPSBA’s releasing sick leave and benefits as two issues left to be dealt with 'bad faith bargaining and a 'hostile move' ...
Heard: Province helps Windsor auto parts company expand plant
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School boards say sick leave, benefits only remaining issues
In contract talks, Ontario Public School Boards' Association says other issues including class size and teacher supervision time have been tentatively agreed on with the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario and the ...
Heard: Regulatory change will allow some employer fees for seasonal agricultural workers
To comply with federal bilateral agreements, the province is making a regulatory adjustment on its labour bill passed last November. The change will allow employers of seasonal agricultural workers to charge certain ...
Happening: Casino and racetrack workers ratify contract
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Heard: OMA says province rejected request for mediation-arbitration
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Premier ‘encouraged’ by progress in contract talks with ETFO
While Kathleen Wynne and Education Minister Liz Sandals have said they're waiting for ETFO to come back to the table after it consults internally, union president Sam Hammond has said ETFO is waiting for the the governme ...
OPSEU deal contains ‘anti-privatization’ language, union says
In a summary posted on its website, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says the three-year tentative agreement includes language that would require the government to work with the union before it outsources publi ...
Ontario sees huge loss of full-time jobs, unemployment ticks up
Despite economic conditions that should be boosting Ontario's exports, job growth remains stagnant over the past year thanks to a brutal September that wiped out 67,700 full-time jobs. ...
Happening: Limestone school board and OSSTF reach local agreement
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Tory backbencher’s motion on agri-food education supported by all parties
PC MPP Lisa Thompson's motion aims to help reach 120,000-job target in Ontario's agri-food industry by 2020 ...
Happening: Iamgold to cut about 200 jobs at South American mine
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Seen: Provinces gives $1.5 million grant to help juice maker expand
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Heard: Developmental services workers join CUPE union
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Happening: Contract talks between ETFO, government, school boards progressing slowly
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Seen: CUPE national president announces retirement
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Heard: Unifor talks with Ontario Northland break off
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Seen: Conference Board and province suggest ways to make workplaces more inclusive
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Happening: ETFO, government, school boards back to contract talks Monday
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Happening: Educational support staff set to take job action Monday
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Health and safety in elementary schools is main focus of education minister
Liz Sandals told reporters Wednesday she "would look at ways of taking action" in the legislature if health and safety concerns stemming from job action get out of hand. ...
Seen: Minimum wage, now indexed to inflation, rising to $11.25 on Thursday
Starting Oct. 1, Ontario will have the highest wage of any province in Canada as it moves to $11.25, from $11. Labour Minister Kevin Flynn took a backbencher question in question period on Wednesday to promote the ...
Heard: Oshawa council passes resolution on TPP trade pact
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Heard: CUPE education workers ramp up work-to-rule campaign
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Heard: CUPE opposes plan to change York Catholic language program
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Heard: Ikea to open new pick-up depot in St. Catharines
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Happening: OSSTF begins work to rule at Thames Valley board
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Heard: CUPE makes bid to end nearly two month strike by CAS workers
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Heard: Province helps expand Kitchener auto parts plant
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Heard: Health minister urges both sides to bargain in home-care worker strike
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Job action planned over local contracts for high school teachers
Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation has secured a central deal, but is still waiting on local deals, including in Halton and Greater Essex ...
OSSTF head hopes local contracts covering teachers reached by end of November
Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation head Paul Elliott says the union is also focused on getting a deal for support staff as they head to the negotiating table this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. ...
Heard: Nurses and social workers in Haldimand-Norfolk head to conciliation
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Patient safety No. 1 for premier when considering expanding role of firefighters
Proposal could see firefighters trained to respond to emergency medical calls, starting with administering symptom-relief drugs, but no decisions have been made yet ...
Happening: Elementary teachers’ union threatens rotating strikes come October
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Heard: Province gives $1 million to Kitchener area auto parts maker for plant expansion
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Heard: ETFO to escalate work-to-rule action Monday
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Catholic teachers ratify central contract
Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association president Ann Hawkins says the three-year deal includes wage increases that are offset in two or three places such as through changes to the retirement gratuity. ...
Government gets tentative deal with francophone teachers’ union
That leaves one tentative agreement at the central bargaining table left to be reached, and it's with the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario ...
Happening: North Bay hospital to cut 140 jobs, union blames underfunding
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Happening: New chief assessment officer at EQAO
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Francophone teachers won’t do extracurriculars if no deal by Friday
AEFO president Carol Jolin says the main sticking points in negotiations are administration of benefits, teacher autonomy and workload. ...
ETFO threatens to ramp up work-to-rule if government’s position doesn’t change
Education Minister Liz Sandals says proposal for ETFO is same framework as contracts for other teachers' unions but takes into account conditions for elementary teachers ...
Heard: OMA decries another cut in doctors’ fees coming Oct. 1
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Happening: ONA expands ad campaign against nursing cuts to Toronto
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Seen: Two down, two to go in reaching deals with major teachers’ unions
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Unemployment rises as more Ontarians looking for work
An increase of 30,200 full-time jobs was offset by 33,000 lost part-time jobs, but the addition of 26,000 more people to the labour force caused the first rise in unemployment of 2015. ...
Seen: CUPE warns it will work to rule next Thursday to press for new contract
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Seen: High school teachers in Moosonee get first ‘freely negotiated’ local deal
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