In OSSTF v Ontario,1 the Ontario Labour Relations Board
("OLRB") offered helpful insight into the education
sector's two-tiered collective bargaining regime. In its
decision, the OLRB dealt with two applications brought by the
Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation
("OSSTF"): one on behalf of secondary school teachers in
English language public schools, the other on behalf of support
staff in various school systems.
The union asked the OLRB to determine whether certain matters
fell within the scope of central bargaining under the School
Boards' Collective Bargaining Act, 2014 ("SBCBA"
or "the Act"). Notably, the OLRB held that all
of the matters raised in the application were appropriate for
central bargaining.
