MUSKOKA-PARRY SOUND - Local high school students will have class as usual on Wednesday.
Peter Carroll, Trillium Lakelands OSSTF president, said the one-day strike for high school teachers planned for Wednesday, Jan. 16 has been cancelled.
“In light of the decision of the Ontario Relations Board early this morning, we have directed our members to report to school to teach next Wednesday,” he said.
Following an all-day meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 9, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF), which represents 60,000 secondary school teachers across Ontario announced it would hold a one-day strike similar to what elementary teachers planned to do on Friday, Jan. 11.
At the time, Carroll said the strike would go ahead unless the province renounces the contracts it imposed on teachers, taking away collective bargaining rights and imposing collective agreements.
Early Friday morning the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) ruled that the one-day strike planned by the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario was illegal. Elementary teachers throughout Muskoka were on the job, though buses were cancelled.
Carroll said though the high school teachers will not go on strike, they will still withdraw from all voluntary activity and have plans for a future protest.
“We’re looking at doing a protest, but I’m at the front end of doing the planning on that,” Carroll said.