Welcome to PSSP Toronto ~
We are proud members of the 50,000 strong Ontario Secondary School Teacher’s Federation. Our Federation local is District 12 which represents, over 7000 members including Teachers, Occasional Teachers and PSSPs in the Toronto District School Board.
Our PSSP local represents over 700 members from 11 front line student support service job classes at the TDSB including: Attendance Counsellors - Child and Youth Counsellors - Child and Youth Workers – Court Liaison Workers - Educational Audiologists - Multilingual Team Leaders – Physiotherapists - Occupational Therapists - Psychological Services - Social Workers - Speech and Language Pathologists - Student Equity Program Advisors.
NEW PSSP Office Location !!! ~
Dear members,
Welcome back to another school year – I hope all of you had a relaxing summer break.
We have some big changes afoot that I wanted to inform you about. You may recall from the letter I sent each of you in June, prior to our elections, of our intention to move our office.
And over the summer we moved from
We have been able to rent a larger, healthier and more adequate space, with our own secure network server at a considerable savings compared to what we were paying in rent to the teachers.
We hoped a summer move would be the least disruptive to member services and hope that reestablishing new communication lines will be a relatively smooth transition during the month of September. I apologize in advance if some of you have to take a few extra steps to contact us during this transition period. Our website has been updated with this new contact information
Our new mailing address is:
Phone #’s
President (647) 3483351
Treasurer (647) 3483352
Health &Safety Officer (647) 3483951
Fax # (647) 3483952
Our new email addressees:
TDSB Automated Dispatch for Casual CYWs ~
May14, 2009
Effective at 6:30 pm on Sunday, May 24, 2009, the Toronto District School Board will be using the Smart FindExpress (SFE) dispatch system to call out to occasional Child & Youth Workers for assignments. SFE is currently used by the TDSB as a dispatch system for Occasional Teachers, and for absence reporting purposes for Teachers, School Administrators, and school based support staff who report to Principals. The system is very high-powered and efficient, operating on T1 cable lines using 34 incoming and 35 outbound telephone lines.
Please make sure that you register using the telephone system at 416-
338-4500 beginning on Saturday, May 16, 2009, otherwise you will not be
able to login to SFE to report absences or accept assignments by the go
live date of Sunday, May 24, 2009.
Working Conditions Memo on 'New' Paid Breaks ~
May14, 2009
Work Day and Breaks
The current Collective Agreement states:
“An Employee’s daily salary is calculated on the basis of providing seven (7) hours of duty each day, Monday to Friday inclusive. Employees are entitled to rest periods as provided by the Employer.”
While the Collective Agreement is not specific on the timing of breaks, the Employer and the
TDSB Email Delivery Delay ~
May11, 2009
The recent email delivery delay that affected all TDSB account holders receipt of the AGM package and College Fee Memo Clarifications has been resolved. However,there has been a concern raised about whether the delay caused by the TDSB server would rule the motions as ‘late’ motions as opposed to ‘on time’. The motion package was originally mailed out April 30th and all non TDSB account users received it at this time. Delivery to TDSB account user was at first delayed by the board server and then returned as undeliverable to us on Monday, May 4th . The package was immediately resent to everyone and the same bounce back occurred with TDSB account only and board IT was contacted. The full AGM package was posted on the PSSP website the following day, May 5th. On May 6th TDSB advised us to resend our package as a test. The package was sent again after TDSB IT finally cleared the delivery error on May 7th to ensure receipt. The communication failure was entirely the responsibility of the TDSB and not that of the bargaining unit and therefore all motions are still considered ‘on time’.
Clarification RE: Memo on College Fees ~
May11, 2009
Click Here for Clarification RE: Memo on College Fees
Click Here for Orginal College Fee Memo
Click Here for College Fee Reimbursement Form