Case No. 2145 against the Government of Ontario

Jurisdiction: 
Ontario
Year/Month: 
July 2001
Case status: 
Closed

Back to School Act, 2000 (Bills 145, November)

The Act ended a lockout of teachers employed by the Hamilton-Wentworth (public) school board and imposed compulsory arbitration.

Submitted by the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF), the Ontario Teachers’ Federation (OTF) and the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) (July 2001).

This legislation was found not to comply with the principles of freedom of association.