Manitoba school divisions officially sign new collective agreement [Video]

Manitoba’s anglophone school divisions have signed a historic agreement years in the making.

The 37 divisions and the Manitoba Teachers’ Society (MTS) officially signed a new collective agreement on Tuesday – the first ever agreement involving all school divisions.

The process took about two years to complete.

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MTS President Nathan Martindale hopes the agreement will help attract and retain more teachers.

“Teaching is a good job. We’ve talked recently that recruitment and retention of teachers is a problem not only here in Manitoba, but across Canada…so this collective agreement is going to work on curbing that trend and having more teachers see teaching as a profession that they want to not only get into, but stay in,” Martindale said.

Manitoba School Boards Association President Sandy Nemeth said school divisions were pleased an agreement was reached and binding arbitration was avoided.

“There is a …