About this episode

Five Ontario Education Unions have initiated bargaining with the government, highlighting issues of understaffing and underfunding in public education.

Send us a note! Five of Ontario’s Education Unions representing over 250,000 workers have served notice to the province to begin bargaining ahead of next school year, in a move some are calling “unprecedented.” Union leaders involved in the announcement have described this announcement as an opportunity for a quarter of a million education workers to say “enough is enough” regarding the chronic understaffing and underfunding of public education. Joe Tigani, president of the Ontario School Boa...

Topics covered

• education
• unions
• bargaining
• public funding
• staffing
• politics

Keywords

• Ontario Education Unions
• bargaining
• Doug Ford
• public education
• understaffing
• underfunding

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ontario Education Unions, Doug Ford's Government

Places: Ontario

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