THUNDER BAY – Add French-language students to the growing list of youngsters who will miss class time because of a teachers’ strike.
On Friday, the leadership of the Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO) announced its teachers next Thursday will begin weekly walk-outs province-wide as it launches Phase 3 of its job action against the provincial government.
It’s the last of the four teachers’ unions in Ontario who have staged walkouts.
A pair of Thunder Bay schools will be affected, along with eight others throughout Northwestern Ontario.
Locally teachers at Ecole Catholique Franco-Superieur and Ecole Secondaire Catholique de La Verendrye will walk off the job.
Earlier this year unionized teachers, who in December voted 97 per cent in favour of strike action, began work-to-rule measures at Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boreales schools.
About 82 AEFO members work for the French language board.
Members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario plan to walk off the job Ontario-wide on Tuesday and locally, as part of a series of rotating strikes, on Thursday.
The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation walked off the job in Thunder Bay on Tuesday, as did the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association.
