The Grand Erie District School Board says its schools in Brantford, Brant, Norfolk and Haldimand counties will be open for in-person learning on Monday.
The board, in a posting on social media on Sunday night, said CUPE workers will be not be on strike after an attempted deal was reached between the provincial government and the union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers.
The workers had filed a five-day strike notice and workers were scheduled to walk off en masse on Monday if a deal wasn’t reached.
“Today we’ve reached a tentative agreement with the provincial government,” Laura Walton, the president of CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions, said Sunday.
“Workers will be in schools tomorrow and there will not be a strike.”
Voting on the tentative agreement is expected to begin Thursday.
The Grand Erie board has 920 workers represented by CUPE, and had told parents last week that it would move to full remote learning in the event of a strike.
Schools operated by the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board were not affected by the labor dispute.
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