Teachers strikes mean thousands of Sudbury students will be out of school one or two days this week thanks to the ongoing labour strife between teachers' unions and the provincial government.
The Elementary Teachers' Association of Ontario (ETFO) is holding one-day, rotating strikes at all boards across the province this week, affecting the Rainbow District School Board Tuesday, Feb. 4.
The union is also holding a provincewide strike Thursday, Feb. 6.
The Rainbow board has cancelled classes for all elementary students on both Tuesday and Thursday.
The Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association has also announced its members are holding a provincewide, one-day strike Tuesday, Feb. 4.
The Sudbury Catholic District School Board has cancelled all classes that day.
A renewed round of contract talks between Ontario elementary teachers and the government broke down late Friday with no deal, meaning their strikes will escalate this week.
The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario and the province had not bargained since Dec. 19, but after the mediator called the parties back to the table last week they spent three long days in negotiations.
No new dates are scheduled.
The union had said that if no deal was reached by Friday, teachers would walk out at each board twice a week starting Monday.
All four major teachers' unions have been without contracts since Aug. 31, and are all engaged in some form of job action.
Unions representing English Catholic teachers and teachers in the French system have bargaining scheduled next week.
High school teachers have no scheduled bargaining dates.
The Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) announced Thursday that they would resume their weekly rotating strikes, after not holding any during students' recent exam period.
However, local boards are not impacted by the OSSTF's planned walkout Tuesday, Feb. 4.
-With files from Canadian Press
