OCEW released a statement saying the agreement was reached after days of negotiations between the bargaining council, the Commissioners Association and the province.
He says the tentative agreement will go to members for ratification across the province in the coming weeks.
OCEW is made up of six unions representing thousands of workers in public and Catholic school boards across the province, including educational resource brokers and maintenance and construction workers.
Education Minister Steven Lecce issued a statement saying the deal shows the Progressive Conservative government can reach deals with education unions. Neither Lecce nor OCEW disclosed the terms of the new contract.
The agreement comes weeks after the province locked horns with the 55,000 education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, who walked off the job for two days last month after the government passed a contract law, barring their right to to strike and preemptively invoke the Misunderstandings Clause to protect against constitutional challenges. That law was eventually repealed, and both sides have since ratified a new convention.
Proud to have secured our second tentative agreement with the education workers union OCEW which further ensures stability for families and interpersonal learning for students. pic.twitter.com/Y0y0k6KThK
— Stephen Lecce (@Sflecce) December 11, 2022
