OTTAWA – The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board says all elementary schools in the district will be closed on Wednesday as teachers are set to stage a one-day strike.

The board says it was advised of the move by the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, which has warned of upcoming rotating strikes across the province.
   
The union has given a 72-hour notice of strike and parents have been advised to make alternate childcare arrangements.
   
The district’s secondary schools will be open that day however, and those students are expected to attend classes.
  
The Ottawa-Carleton board is the latest to be hit by the one-day walkouts, which the union says are to protest new legislation that gives the government the power to stop strikes and impose  collective agreements.
   
Elementary teachers in the Avon Maitland and Ontario North East school boards have said they will stage a one-day strike on Monday.