Occasional teachers with the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board have signed off on a new three-year contract.
In a vote Tuesday night, 94% of the members of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association signed off on it.
The deal was reached last month and already, occasional teachers are half-way through the contract. It expires in August 2017.
"The contract now is in two parts," says President of the Windsor-Essex Occasional Teachers Unit, Michael-John Knoblauch. "The first part is bargained provincially, and we have to wait until the provincial bargaining is over before we can start our local bargaining."
The deal will give more senior teachers greater job security at a time of falling enrolment, "which is good for the students and it's also good for the teachers", says Knoblauch.
The local represents 371 occasional teachers with the Catholic school board.
