Premier Wynne says she is prepared to take whatever action that she needs to take to get students back to school as quickly as possible. The declaration came as reporters peppered the Premier with questions about back to work legislation. There are two judgments of a kind to be delivered before the Premier is likely to act. The government has sought official advice from the Education Relations Commission on whether the students’ academic year is at risk, usually the first step in the process of legislating workers back on the job. No word yet from the ERL so far. Then there’s the petition by three school board to the Ontario Labour Relations Board claiming that the secondary school teachers are on an illegal strike in Durham, Peel and Rainbow (Sudbury) District school boards.
