On Monday, October 31st, the Ford Conservatives took the unprecedented step of proposing legislation that would force a contract on education workers, violating workers’ constitutional right to bargain fairly, keeping many workers in poverty, instead of continuing with negotiations. To pass it, they’ve invoked the notwithstanding clause, overriding the Charters’ protections of the fundamental right…
TORONTO, ON – As most students prepare to go back to school next week and with pressure on parents to spend even more out of their own pockets on everything from school supplies to the skyrocketing costs of food and rent, Ontario’s 55,000 frontline education workers are using bargaining for their next collective agreement to…
TORONTO, ON – Today 55,000 education workers who are members of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) filed for conciliation. The following is a statement from Laura Walton, an educational assistant and the president of CUPE’s OSBCU: “Since June 3 when we served notice to bargain our next collective agreement with the Council…
TORONTO, ON – On Tuesday, the central bargaining committee elected by Ontario’s 55,000 frontline education workers presented a full package of bargaining proposals to the Council of Trustees’ Associations (CTA) and provincial government negotiators in an effort to push the Ford government to get a fair deal done before September. These workers’ Proposals for Student…
Toronto, ON – Now’s the time to finally repeal the Constitution-violating legislation which caps total compensation, including wages, for public sector workers to only 1 per cent, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario during a press conference. “The Ford Conservatives have simply done nothing to deal with the skyrocketing cost of living,”…
Toronto, ON – Frontline education workers and concerned community members have been calling and emailing Toronto District School Board (TDSB) trustees in advance of the board’s meeting on Wednesday afternoon, urging trustees to pass a no-cuts budget. On June 8, the TDSB’s Finance, Budget, and Enrolment Committee rejected a proposed budget containing cuts that was…
Belleville, ON – In a do-over meeting on Monday, Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board (HPEDSB) trustees adopted the exact same 2022-2023 budget they had declined just last week, this time with a five-to-four vote. The now approved budget for the next school year starting in September cements previously rejected cuts of 11 frontline…
Toronto, ON – The day before Premier Doug Ford is set to see Ontario’s new cabinet sworn in, frontline education workers delivered over 25,000 letters to his office at Queen’s Park. The letters call for more education workers in schools to guarantee that service improvements for students are in place come September and real wage…
Mississauga, ON – Due to pressure from workers and residents of Peel Region and Dufferin County, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board (DPCDSB) will vote on a 2022-2023 budget Tuesday that would retain 41 out of 51 education workers’ jobs – 80 percent of frontline positions that were on the chopping block a month ago.…
Belleville, ON – Frontline education workers demonstrated outside and attended inside at the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board (HPEDSB) meeting on Monday evening. Despite rising enrollment and this school board’s own projection that funding will increase for the 2022-2023 school year starting in September, trustees are cutting 11 frontline workers: custodians, maintenance, and…
