Interview: ETFO President Sam Hammond

By News Staff

Posted February 28, 2013 11:07 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

680News reporter Momin Qureshi speaks to Sam Hammond, president of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, about the union’s decision not to ask its members to resume voluntary activities.

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