She says cutting back on administrative duties means that members won’t be attending staff meetings. The union says that will also include not completing Term 1 report cards, not participating in school board P-A day activities and not doing any online training by the ministry. Education Minister Stephen Lecce says a work-to-rule campaign by public elementary teachers will hurt children. Lecce says he’s disappointed the union has decided to escalate to a partial withdrawal of services even though there are only a limited number of outstanding items at the bargaining table. However, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario says it had no choice but to begin job action on November 26th, because very little has changed since bargaining started.
