The Ontario government has reached another tentative deal with education workers – this time, the 7,000 school support staff represented by the Ontario Council of Education Workers (OCEW).
OCEW is a network of six unions representing educational resource facilitators, custodians, maintenance and construction workers. The group said that after days of negotiations, the bargaining council, the Council of Trustees’ Association, and the province ultimately came to an agreement.
This announcement comes less than a week after a deal was ratified with the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ Ontario School Boards Council of Unions, which represents 55,000 education workers across the province.
“We are proud to announce that another tentative central agreement has been reached with the education workers represented by the [OCEW],” Minister of Education Stephen Lecce wrote in a statement. “This further demonstrates that our government can deliver agreements with education unions that ensure children remain in class, where they belong.”
Details about the settlement will not be made public until after ratification. The deal will go to OCEW members for voting over the next several weeks.
