THE HISTORY OF TEACHERS’ UNIONS IN ONTARIO

28predictions about the harsh political climate the OSSTF was about to face in their effortsto negotiate their contracts.Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation. "Ontario Secondary SchoolTeachers' Federation." Accessed November 5, 2012.http://www.osstf.on.ca/Default.aspx?DN=4b54772f-2451-41f4-88acec4d9d86c04f.The “History and Fast Facts” section of the OSSTF website provides the union’sperspective on their official history. Using the dates, events, and individuals that OSSTFbelieves are important to their formation and history helps foster a deeper understandingof the union’s values.Parker, Edna. Interviewed by Jennifer Parker. Midland, ON. October 17, 2012.Edna Parker, past President of the FWTAO and former Vice-President of the OTFthroughout the 1980s, provides a first-hand account of what it was like to be a teacherduring the 1970s. As a union branch leader for ETFO throughout the early 1970s, shereflects upon the main issues that were facing teachers at the time. She also provides herown opinion related to the passing of Bills 274, 275, and 100.Paton, J.M. “The Future Begins Today.” Concern and Competence in CanadianEducation: Essays by J.M. Paton. Edited by D.A. MacIver. Toronto: TheGoverning Council of the University of Toronto, 1973: 99-105.According to a Foreword by D. F. Dadson, Dean of the Faculty of Education at theUniversity of Toronto, Dr. Paton was a revolutionary theorist with regards to educationand teachers’ rights, operating through the thirties and into the early years of theseventies. His essays cover a variety of topics and reflect an understanding of the spirit ofthe time. The essays used in this paper reflect a man who has spent over forty yearsthinking and writing about Canadian education. His major consideration was theprofessional development of teachers, and as such his position on teacher militancy tendsto be very moderate and mainly concerns union organization.Paton, J.M. “The Quest for Corporate Status.” in Concern and Competence inCanadian Education: Essays by J.M. Paton, edited by D.A. MacIver, 111 –132. Toronto: The Governing Council of the University of Toronto, 1973.See Paton, J.M. as written above.