The Ottawa Catholic School Board will end on Friday when tens of thousands of education workers are scheduled to leave their jobs that day. A board spokesperson said Tuesday: "There will be no learning in any OCSB school on Friday, but all OCSB students will participate in remote learning." Other local school boards plan to remain open. Also, tens of thousands of librarians, custodians, and early childhood educators across Ontario are set to leave their jobs on Friday after the provincial government introduced legislation to ban strikes and impose a contract on education workers.

Additionally, the government aims to pass the legislation before the planned strike on Friday, as legislators met for a second reading of the bill Tuesday morning, while the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (CUPE), representing about 55,000 members, seeks annual salary increases of 11.7 percent.

The province’s latest offer is a four-year deal that would set annual increases for members earning less than $43,000 at 2.5 percent and provide raises of 1.5 percent for everyone else. CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn said Tuesday morning that the strike could continue after Friday, telling Newstalk 580 CFRA: "We see no other option here but to stand up and say it is unacceptable to override people’s rights and ignore the call to invest in our public education system. At this stage, it’s clear our members are prepared to continue after Friday if necessary, and that’s not what we want to do, no one wants this to happen. People want to be at work doing the jobs they love, but we need a partner to come to the table and actually reach an agreement that would make the necessary investments to allow that to happen."

Furthermore, Education Minister Stephen Lecce introduced the anti-strike law Monday after an emergency mediation session the previous day between CUPE, a neutral mediator, and school board representatives failed to reach an agreement. In the same context, Ontario legislators opposing the anti-strike bill said it is "horrifying" that the average salary of a worker in the CUPE bargaining unit requesting a pay raise is $39,000 as inflation enters double digits.