Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation

As a result, on January 3, 2013, Minister of Education Laurel Broten announced that she has imposed contracts on teachers and that she will be repealing the bill.

[2] The OSSTF contract expired at the end of August 2014, at which time negotiations began to occur under the new two-tiered bargaining system.

[4] On April 21, 2015, OSSTF members employed by the Peel District School Board announced that a strike would occur if a local deal is not reached by May 4, 2015.

In the early morning hours of May 4, 2015, it was announced that attempts at a deal were unsuccessful, as a result members of OSSTF employed by the Peel District School Board went on strike on May 4, 2015.

[6] On May 25, 2015, the Government of Ontario passed back to work legislation to put an end to the strike in Durham, Rainbow and Peel District School Boards.

[7][8] On May 27, 2015, the OSSTF announced that a full strike would resume in Durham, Rainbow and Peel on June 10, 2015, as this would be past the two-week moratorium imposed by Bernard Fishbein, Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board.

On April 29, 2016, the OSSTF division of the Rainy River District School Board announced that they would begin rotating weekly one-day strikes.

OSSTF Members in Peel Region demonstrating in 2015 following failed negotiations