Keep Schools Safe
It is well past time Manitoba teachers and school staff were included in priority COVID-19 vaccinations. A third, rapidly infectious COVID-19 wave, has arrived and neither government nor schools can be caug... Read More...
Candidates for MTS Provincial Executive
The top jobs on the MTS provincial executive will go uncontested this year. The March 1 deadline for nominations having passed, James Bedford and Nathan Martindale have been acclaimed for a further two-year ter... Read More...
MTS Fights for Principals
On Monday (Mar.15), Bill 64 – The Education Modernization Act was introduced in the legislature. This legislation provided context and clarification on some important questions posed by principal and vice-princ... Read More...
K-12 Education Commission Report Released
Education Review Short on Details
The Provincial Government unveiled its long-awaited changes to the Manitoba school system that promise to ripple through the system for years.
Teachers and principals wil... Read More...
Clarifying Self-Isolation Exemptions
Kindergarten to Grade 12 education providers (all teachers, administrators, and support staff), who have been directed to self-isolate because a member of their household is either awaiting a COVID-19 test resu... Read More...
Public Sector Bargaining Opens Up
Members of Beautiful Plains Teachers Association (BPTA), in a unanimous vote, ratified a new collective agreement, breaking free from the shackles placed on public sector bargaining by Bill 28 - The Public ... Read More...
Speak up on Bill 45
Members of The Manitoba Teachers’ Society are being encouraged to make their voices heard on impending provincial labour legislation.
Among other items, Bill 45 – The Public Schools Amendment and MTS Ame... Read More...
Arbitration Board Issues Award in Pembina Trails
On February 15, 2021, the Pembina Trails arbitration board issued a unanimous award. Significant gains were made on the association’s three key proposals of economic protection, defined job expectations, and jo... Read More...
MTS Calls for K-12 Report Release
Picture 2020. What Do You See?
Manitoba’s public school teachers saw students. They saw them in class and online. Indoors and out. They created safe spaces for learning and built connection any way they coul... Read More...
Gov’t Continues to Tighten Purse Strings on Public Education
The provincial government’s failure to adequately fund public education, for five years in a row, will have dire and long-lasting effects on the delivery of education and student outcomes for Manitoba stude... Read More...