Welcome to the Niagara OT Local Web Site!



Local Annual General Meeting on June 4th! Come out to review our preliminary submission. Click on Professional Learning & Events on the right menu bar for details.

Welcome to the ETFO Niagara Occasional Teachers' Local web site. Occasional teachers have their own bargaining units within ETFO, which means that DSBN has two ETFO Locals: one for occasional teachers (daily and LTO), and one for full-time contract teachers.

Your ETFO Local negotiates your contract, offers support and assistance in any disciplinary or grievance matters, offers professional learning, represents you on committees, provides social events, produces a newsletter, and a myriad of other functions.

#A21NoCuts Photos

Our fearless leader was featured in this picture which was used in a Toronto Star article about the Day of Action Against Cuts protest... click on the image for more photos.

There were probably close to 20,000 people there... while marching I couldn't see either the front or the end of the sea of people.  Let's hope McGuinty gets the message that he needs to tax corporations, not cut public services!

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April 21st Day of Action Against Cuts!

Join us on April 21st at Queen's Park to rally against government cuts!



Bus Departure Times and Locations:
10:45am Port Colborne: Steelworkers Hall, 2-87 Clarence Street
11:15am Welland: Welland Hydro, 950 East Main Street
11:45am Thorold: Niagara Regional Headquarters, 2201 St. David’s Road
12:00pm (noon) St. Catharines: CAW 199 Hall, 124 Bunting Road
1:30 pm Toronto Steelworkers Hall: Lunch Provided


For more information contact president@niagaralabour.ca or call Daniel Peat at 905-933-1889.

Facebook page: http://on.fb.me/A21NoCuts
Twitter: #A21DOA
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Ontario College of Teachers Election

The Ontario College of Teachers is electing a new College Council this year. Online electronic voting will begin on March 5th, and closes on April 10th. Results will be announced April 12th. To vote, simply log into the Members Area of the College of Teachers website and you'll be presented with a ballot.

There is one position you'll be able to vote for where you have the chance to elect someone to College Council who will understand and represent the issues of occasional teachers. That is the “Southcentral Region Part-time/Full-time” position. Each region has two positions: full-time only, and the part-time/full-time position (part-time in this context includes occasional teachers). The part-time/full-time regional positions are the only positions which allow occasional teachers to have direct representation on College Council.

Niagara occasional teacher Mark Carter is a candidate for the Southcentral Region Part-time/Full-time position, and we encourage you to vote for him. Mark can bring to the College of Teachers a genuine understanding of the realities of being an occasional teacher. He has served on your Local Executive in many capacities for the past seven years, and we're confident that he will quite capably represent your interests at the College of Teachers. His election web site is at http://octelection.markcarter.info.

For more information on the College Council election, visit http://election.oct.ca

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Collective Bargaining Update - March 6



Monitor collective bargaining news at the ControlYourFuture.ca website.  From there you can subscribe to the provincial bargaining news eNewsletter, download the app, view videos, and learn about the collective bargaining process.
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ETFO on the Drummond Commission


ETFO's President, Sam Hammond, addresses the issue of the Drummond Commission and its focus on cuts to the public sector.  You can e-mail Sam at shammond@etfo.org

For the latest bargaining news, visit ControlYourFuture.ca.
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