Minister’s comments have stalled negotiations: Catholic teachers union email

By News Staff

Talks between the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA) and the government appeared to have broken down again.

In an email that was sent to union members and obtained by CityNews on Monday night, OECTA said they initially suspended strike action this week as a “show of food faith” in order to move forward on the talks.

The email said that that the onus was on the government to come to the table with an acceptable proposal for the union. But after Education Minister Stephen Lecce “spent the weekend making baseless, inflammatory comments about catholic teachers and our association…his negotiating team came to the table with the same proposals to take resources out of the classroom.”

The email said it appeared to OECTA the government had “no real intention of negotiating an agreement.”

“We will not tolerate the government’s disrespect for our members or their insistence on making permanent cuts to publicly funded education,” the email continued.

OECTA said they will continue the administrative strike action, and “will also be considering options for further strike action.”

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