As the threat of a teachers' strike grows for some public high schools in the province, negotiations for London's teachers are ongoing.
On Wednesday, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation walked away from provincial contract talks.
However, Blair Middleton, president of the OSSTF's Thames Valley District 11, says there are both local and provincial rounds of bargaining. He says the contract for local teachers is separate from what is being negotiated at the provincial level.
"Teachers will have a central contract and they'll have a local contract, (which) will be put together. There will be no connection between the two. There will be central items and there will be local items," he says. "We have to negotiate locally... and we are doing that."
The first school board that could be affected by a strike is in Durham region, east of Toronto. Those teachers will be in a legal strike position on Monday.
Local teachers have been without a contract since August 2014.
