Both sides in the public high school teachers dispute are back at the bargaining table today. (Monday)
Two days of talks have been set aside.
Rich Seeley of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation is hoping the Ford government is willing to make some moves.
“We have given them proposals but at this point we don’t know what the tone of the talks is going to look like. We will just have to wait and see but anytime you talk, there’s reason for optimism.”
Seeley adds “We haven’t talked for over a week. Maybe that week, kind of reset everything in everyone’s minds, is enough that we can sit down and have some progressive talks and hopefully call off the strikes and get people in classrooms and get a deal.”
The major stumbling block has been the union’s demands for cost of living wage increases and smaller class sizes.
