Trustees with the Kenora Catholic District School Board and members of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association have come to a local agreement.
The union represents 124 full-time teachers in Red Lake and Kenora, as well as 79 occasional teachers.
Terms haven’t been disclosed.
The contract was finalized last week, with teachers voting 100% in favour of it on Tuesday.
Director of Education Derek Haime says “We have a very good working relationship with our partners OECTA and so we’re very pleased to come to consensus fairly quickly. So it’s nice to have that out of the way so we can face together the challenges that await us.”
OECTA Kenora Unit President Leanne Davidson says “”We are very happy to have finalized our local bargaining process and ratified both our Permanent and Occasional Teachers’ Local Collective Agreements. I know that KCDSB and OECTA will continue to work together as we move forward into the future.”
Davidson says union members decided quickly on the terms of the local agreement as full-time teachers took three days to ratify it, while part-time instructors only needed one day.
It’s a three contract retroactive to September 1st, 2019.
(With files from Tim Davidson)
