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In order to negotiate the best agreement for our members your Collective Bargaining Committee needs your help! Your union is a democratic member-driven organization, and your opinions matter.

It is important that all our members complete the survey so we can utilize your input in developing preliminary submission language for our next round of negotiations. All questions are optional. However, to best serve you we would appreciate if you could answer all the questions to the best of your knowledge or choose the options that are the closest to your personal situation. All answers and information you provide are strictly confidential. You can access our current collective agreement at contract.niagaraot.org if you'd like to refer to it as you complete the survey.

This round of bargaining is a bit different than previous years. We've had two rounds of bargaining now where local bargaining was severely curtailed by events at the provincial level (such as Bill 115 last year). However, we now have Bill 122, the School Boards Collective Bargaining Act (SBCBA). SBCBA promises two tiers of independent bargaining... provincial and local. So theoretically we'll have a better opportunity to focus on items identified by the members in this round. It also means that a number of key issues such as compensation and hiring related to Regulation 274 will be dealt with at the provincial table. While this CB survey tries to focus on bargaining at the Local level, rest assured that we will be working hard within ETFO to ensure that your interests are well-represented when it comes to central bargaining items as well.

All that being said, we have two past preliminary submissions to draw upon, and we don't know yet what the central bargaining issues will be. So our CB survey this time around is shorter and more focused on drawing on your experiences in the classroom and more generally as an employee of DSBN.

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* 1. Providing your personal information below is completely optional.

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* 2. DSBN Employee Number (Only to verify your status as an occasional teacher with DSBN)

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* 3. Gender:

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* 4. Age:

The following questions will help your ETFO Niagara Occasional Teacher Executive better understand the working conditions its members are facing in the workplace. Please choose the best answer that fits your current situations.

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* 5. How many years have you worked as a teacher outside of the DSBN? Either as an OT or permanent with the Public or Private system?

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* 6. What is your QECO rating?

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* 7. Is being an Occasional Teacher your household's primary source of income?

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* 8. Please choose the best description of what fits your current situation:

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* 9. How many days per week are you available to teach?

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* 10. Are you satisfied with the amount of work you're offered?

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* 11. One of the provincial bargaining goals is "To negotiate fair distribution of daily work." An OT list with a meaningful cap number (maximum number of OTs) is one way to address distribution of daily work. Thinking about how daily work is assigned, how SEMS works, and the frequency of opportunities you have to work, please give us your suggestions on ways to improve the assignment of daily work.

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* 12. Please number the following items in order of most importance to you as an Occasional Teacher working for DSBN. Please rate all selections 1 through 6.
(1 being of GREATEST importance and 6 being of LEAST importance)

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Improvements to daily work call-out system
DSBN Paid Professional Development Days for Occasional Teachers
Cost Shared Benefits
No Duty when called in for a day of prep coverage
Improvements to job cancellation practices
Improvements to support your professional growth and development

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* 13. Do you feel that you receive enough disciplinary support from administration? (Example: situations are dealt with when a child is sent to the office)

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* 14. Our Collective Agreement (Article 21.07) stipulates that a package/binder must be left in every classroom for occasional teachers containing specific pieces of information about classroom procedures and student medical information. What is your experience with this information? (please check all that apply)

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* 15. Please share your ideas for more effective OT Information Binders. What else should be included in the standard format developed by DSBN?

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* 16. What other issues affect you as an Occasional Teacher that may not have been addressed in the previous questions that you feel should be considered by your Collective Bargaining Committee?

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey! The information you provided is invaluable to the Collective Bargaining Committee and all information will be used confidentially to develop a plan for the next round of negotiations. To submit your form please make sure you only click the 'done' button below once.

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