Parents may have been relieved to hear about the deals reached with the major education unions representing teachers and support staff — but there’s still no guarantee of labour peace in Ontario schools.

That’s because the agreements are all provincial and cover the big issues — salaries, benefits — and local deals still have to be worked out for elementary and secondary teachers, as well as custodians and school secretaries.

In Toronto, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation local has threatened job action starting Wednesday if it doesn’t have an agreement with the Toronto District School Board.

“There are hot local issues around safety in schools, health and safety — all those thing are out there,” said Doug Jolliffe, president of OSSTF District 12, saying one issue is that principals need to be on-site instead of off-site for endless meetings to provide support for teachers.

The job action won’t impact extracurriculars, but will mean no comments on report cards. (Teachers will, however, still compile and input grades so that reports can be sent out.) They’ll also continue to take part in high school information nights,where Grade 8 students tour to get more information about specialized programs before choosing where to apply.

The job action is mainly administrative, and designed put pressure on the board to settle.

“This is aimed at principals,” said Jolliffe.

Paul Elliott, president of the provincial OSSTF, said the union is “extremely disappointed with the lack of movement toward a local deal in Toronto. We expect a fair local deal that doesn't seek to undermine the working conditions of our members or the learning conditions of our students.”

Board spokesperson Shari Schwartz-Maltz said the TDSB is hopeful for a settlement in time to avert job action.

Some districts of the union already have ratified deals in place both provincially and locally, including Peel and Durham, which were targets of full-out strikes by teachers last spring.

“We were the first ones to have the local deal,” said Brian Woodland of the Peel District School Board, noting it came about after last spring’s labour disruption and subsequent back-to-work legislation that led to arbitration.

Deals have also been reached in Durham, York, Halton and Kawartha Pine Ridge.

“Because it is broken into two-tier bargaining . . . it means even though we have a central deal, bargaining is not considered over until local deals are ratified,” said Michael Barrett, president of the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association and chair of the Durham District School Board.

Meanwhile, the 15,000 support staff represented by the OSSTF across the province responded to a threat to see their pay docked over ongoing work-to-rule, which has seen school secretaries refuse to monitor front-door security systems.

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“The Ontario Government created and passed the legislation that has led to this long and cumbersome bargaining process. As per this new law, called the School Boards Collective Bargaining Act, we served notice to bargain for our support staff back in summer of 2014. Since that time we have had a total of 12 days of face-to-face bargaining at the central table,” Elliott said at a press conference held in downtown Toronto.

“. . . We have asked for multiple bargaining dates with the government and school boards, but have been given very few.”