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OLRB Chair Bernard Fishbein reserves judgment on whether to rule in small school boards' case against elementary teachers' after-school boycott.

from the Toronto Star

"If the Ontario Labour Relations Board rules that the elementary teachers’ union broke the law last fall when it advised members not to run after-school programs, it could threaten the shaky labour peace being hammered out now with Queen’s Park, warns the lawyer for the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO).

"Howard Goldblatt urged Labour Board Chair Bernard Fishbein Tuesday to drop the case against ETFO launched in January by two small school boards, who argue the Education Act forbids unions who aren’t in a strike to encourage collective action that disrupts the normal activities of a school. …"

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