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The Canadian Press
TORONTO — The union representing public high school teachers says the state's pay raises for education workers on proposed four-year contracts won't be enough to cover the cost of living .
Karen Littlewood, president of the Ontario Federation of Secondary School Teachers, today commented on a proposal the government submitted earlier this week in negotiations with the Civil Service Union of Canada.
The proposed deal would offer him a 2% pay raise for educators earning less than her $40,000 a year, and a 1.25% pay raise for everyone else. It gave the first indication of what the Progressive Conservative government wants. We are also in negotiations with the four major teachers' unions.
Littlewood says her union is still in the early stages of negotiations and has not yet received an offer from the state, but she says there are similar offers. I expect
CUPE called on the state to raise wages by 11.7% a year ($3.25 an hour), arguing workers' wages have been capped over the past decade and inflation has been high.
Previous contracts were subject to a law known as Bill 124, which the government introduced in her 2019, limiting wage increases for public sector workers to 1% a year for her three years. Was.
This Canadian Press report was first published on August 18, 2022.
