Despite the legislation, CUPE said education workers still stage a province wide protest and walk off the job this Friday, Nov. 4.
The Ontario government has tabled legislation that will impose a contract on education workers and not allow them to legally walk off the job.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), who represent about 55,000 Ontario education workers, gave five days’ notice of a potential province wide strike on Sunday morning if a new deal isn’t reached with the government by Friday.
Despite the legislation, CUPE said education workers still stage a province wide protest and walk off the job this Friday, Nov. 4.
Laura Walton, president of CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions, says whether workers continue to protest after Friday “will be left up to what happens.
”The government had been offering raises of two per cent a year for workers making less than $40,000 and 1.25 per cent for all others, and Lecce says the new deal would give 2.5 per cent annual raises to workers making less than $43,000 and 1.5 per cent raises for all others
