Rainbow School

By Stew Kernan

Ontario’s Labour Relations Board will hear an application Thursday from the Rainbow District School Board along with two other boards asking for the high school teachers’ strike to be declared illegal.

More than 5,000 students in Sudbury and Manitoulin…70,00 in total…have been out of class for weeks and the school boards say the job action is unlawful.

Chair of Rainbow Board, Doreen Dewar, says the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation is staging local strikes on central issues, which is not allowed under a new bargaining system the Liberal government introduced last year.

A decision from the Labour Relations Board could come late in the day tomorrow or Friday.