{"id":48611,"date":"2015-05-08T23:16:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=48611"},"modified":"2015-05-08T23:16:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:16:21","slug":"ontario-elementary-teachers-to-give-details-of-planned-strike-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/08\/ontario-elementary-teachers-to-give-details-of-planned-strike-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario elementary teachers to give details of planned strike action"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16630\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/classroom-education.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16630\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/classroom-education.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/classroom-education.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/classroom-education-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/classroom-education-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; Ontario parents should find out today whether the province&#8217;s elementary schools will be closed Monday because of a planned teachers&#8217; strike.<\/p>\n<p>The Elementary Teachers&#8217; Federation of Ontario is planning a province-wide strike next week, but has so far refused to say whether it will be a complete withdrawal of services, which would close schools, or an administrative work-to-rule.<\/p>\n<p>Union president Sam Hammond is expected to outline the preferred path at a news conference scheduled for this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Education Minister Liz has urged the union to announce its plans as soon as possible, saying parents need to make alternate arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Under legislation brought in by the Liberal government last year, employees must give five days&#8217; notice before striking.<\/p>\n<p>Sandals says she will consider amending the legislation so that unions must specify what kind of strike they&#8217;re planning.<\/p>\n<p>The elementary teachers&#8217; strike comes as more than 70,000 high school students in the province sit home because teachers in the Toronto-area boards of Peel and Durham as well as in the Sudbury area have walked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Ontario parents should find out today whether the province&#8217;s elementary schools will be closed Monday because of a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":16630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-education","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}