CUPE has said it will explore every avenue to fight the bill, but the government said it intends to use the notwithstanding clause to keep the eventual law in force
TORONTO — A union representing approximately 55,000 Ontario education workers said Monday its members will walk off the job on Friday despite the government tabling legislation to impose contracts and ban a strike.
Laura Walton, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employee’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions, said whether workers continue to protest after Friday “will be left up to what happens.”
“I am so proud because our members have said, ‘Enough is enough,”‘ Walton said.
The Ontario government introduced legislation Monday to impose a contract on CUPE’s education workers — including librarians, custodians and early childhood educators — and avert a strike that was set to start Friday.
