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Members of The Manitoba Teachers’ Society (MTS) had a chance to ask questions, share concerns and raise issues affecting their classrooms amid COVID-19 during an hour-long telephone town hall with MTS Presi... Read More...

The Manitoba Teachers’ Society is supporting strike action by the University of Manitoba Faculty Association. The association could go on strike as early as Monday. At a special meeting of the MTS Provincial... Read More...

Published in the November 11, 2020 edition of the Winnipeg Free Press It’s said that patience is a virtue, and for the most part I agree. Some things are worth waiting for.  Acquiring the discipline to b... Read More...

Effective Thursday, November 12, the province of Manitoba will move to the critical level (red) on the Pandemic Response System. There will be no change to schools in the K-12 education system. All schools i... Read More...

Public Health has confirmed that asymptomatic teachers, with a household member who is symptomatic, are exempt from self-isolation orders, as long as the teacher wears a medical mask. This exemption, which a... Read More...

Education Minister Kelvin Goertzen announced that three non-instructional days taken from teachers at the beginning of the school year will be re-added to the 2020-21 school calendar. “We have been calli... Read More...

A group of educators has written an open letter to Premier Brian Pallister calling on the government to implement measures to ensure schools are safe for staff and students. “We write to you today, in so... Read More...

Teacher Workload Unsustainable The Manitoba Teachers’ Society (MTS) is renewing their call on the provincial government to use the $85.4 million in federal education funding to hire more staff, increase acce... Read More...

What is single-tier provincial bargaining? Currently, each of the 38 bargaining units negotiate separate collective agreements. Single-tier provincial bargaining means that all teachers, except those in... Read More...

The provincial government today introduced legislation that will replace the current system of local bargaining, for public school teachers, with a provincial model for all new collective agreements. Bil... Read More...