Leaders from teachers' unions in Ontario took a break from negotiations with the province to hold a strategy meeting in a Toronto hotel Thursday.
About 300 activists from across the province who are still negotiating new collective bargaining agreements met to discuss their key demands: smaller class sizes, increased individual student attention and cleaner and safer schools.
Union leaders also want the recommendations from last year's Falconer report, which investigated violence in schools, to be put in place to make school's safer for teachers and students.
"One of the items he very clearly indicated was that there has to be more staff in the schools," Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation President Ken Coran told reporters. "And that's part of our whole negotiating strategy, is to make sure that we have more staff so that safety can be addressed, so that there's more resources, there's more services."
Coran said 120 out of 135 units are still negotiating new collective agreements with the province.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Galit Solomon
