The Lambton Kent District School Board and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1238 have reached a tentative agreement.
The two parties reached the agreement on Friday and will hold a ratification vote at a later date.
The details of the deal wont be released until after the agreement is ratified, but CUPE representatives have stated that the outstanding issues during bargaining consisted of health and safety, violence in the workplace, contracting in/out, and medical procedures.
CUPE members include educational assistants, office administrators, custodians, instructors, library technicians, and speech pathologists to name a few.
If an agreement had not been reached this week, the union had given notice to the school board that workers would conduct a Phase 2 work-to-rule campaign on Monday.
The union also threatened to invoke a strike mandate if a contract was not reach before March 22.
Now that a tentative agreement is in place, staff will continue performing all of their duties in schools on Monday.
-With files from Briana Carnegie
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