HDSB’s secondary students would continue to attend class at school each day, which includes Grade 7 to 12 schools in Aldershot, Burlington Central, and Acton District.
The union then asked the Ontario Ministry of Labour to grant what is known as a no-board report, which means that a board of conciliation will not be appointed. That go-ahead, which allowed the workers to legally walk off the job in 17 days , was given on Oct. 17. Five days notice must be given before the union can go on strike.
Among other things, CUPE wants a yearly wage increase of $3.25/hour , early childhood educators in every kindergarten class, five additional paid days before the start of the school year, 30 minutes of paid daily prep time, an increase in overtime pay, and a $100 million investment in new job creation.
Walton says that CUPE’s goal is to "get a negotiated agreement that responds to the needs of students and frontline workers. No one wants to strike, least of all the lowest-paid education workers who can barely pay our bills.” “We are at the table with a fair offer that includes a pay raise and maintains the most generous pension and benefit package, but most importantly — it keeps kids in class,” Lecce said.
Remember the days when if you didn't like what you got paid, you got a different job....
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With a mug as cute as his ~-~ he can legislate all over this joint...+.bet he's a bit freaky🤶
I'm sick of these whining teachers and their union. Why can't they protest during summer mths? No let's do it during the school year. Disrupt the kids education and leave certain parents scrambling to find someone to care for the kids. Shameful
Funny how not so long ago the same people welcomed this form of government intervention.
As much as this will be difficult for me as parents. The teachers and all the support workers work hard for our kids and the deserve a reasonable increase. They shouldn't be in minimum wage!
How about bringing in right to work legislation fordnation OPSEU we took the hurt through COVID while Gov workers were paid while sitting on the sidelines watching private sector go bankrupt. onpoli CUPEOntario
Ya where’s all the freedom convey kens and Karen’s now? Our government is actually taking away rights here? But I don’t see no Canadian flags on the back of ford trucks right now?
Good
Good do it. This is beyond upsetting and devasting for children and parents alike.
nurses know bill124 women
Why don’t they just enact the emergency act, trample the protestors with government horses, arrest the organizers, hold them without bail, and freeze their bank accounts. Karma is a bitch, you ignorant government shills.
I wish they would strike to show all these internet trolls their not need , then you people would realize how important of a role they play in a classroom these are not class”teachers “ who are upset it’s teachers support staff that are being effective
Unnecessary legislation. Stand with CUPE! Douglas Ford's government is a dictatorship. Fascistford dougfordisdestroyingontario NeverVoteConservative
Please dissolve these EVIL UNIONS, KIDS HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH AND STILL SUFFERING!!!
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For those who don’t know, this is the CUPE union they are referring to and that does not include teachers. I quit my job as an Educational Assistant because the pay was awful for what I had to do and it was becoming increasingly more violent in the classrooms.
Sorry, I just can’t find the trust in government anymore to do anything, but I do have much confidence in the people in Canada…you know, the “Fringe Minority“ that gave me HOPE! Long live the truckers! 🚛🚛🚛🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🚛🚛🚛
bloody criminals. the whole lot of them.
You can’t prevent the strike. Give educational support workers the money they need to survive.
Trample people with horses, Violently remove peaceful protesters seize their bank accounts Yaaa Stop teachers from disrupting a 3rd consecutive year of education from kids..... Oh the horror
Sflecce CUPEOntario just heard you on CP 24. You are a lair. The 10% over 4 years are for the lowest paid workers. You are so concerned about the students but remember that these women are the mothers of these children.
What is their hourly rate? $43,000 sounds like low. But it depends on how many hours they work a year
Not that j sympathize with anyone in an education union but i don't think anything is binding with government unless they want it .
A 1.2% increase is an insult plain and simple. No wonder CUPE is at 11.7%. Can the babies work this out NOW. 6.45% to be agreed to by both sides. Simple.
I'm sure that a bunch of up and coming teachers who are in college and university would happily walk into those positions with the current wages.
Lock him up!
Ontario generally: 'we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas! someone pass a special law!'
SHAME ON fordnation SHAME ON Sflecce You all know what you're doing. Why won't you stop? What's it gonna take? A CONVOY?
That’s fascism
Good. They had all summer to strike.
RETWEET fordnation Ford gov't bullshit Premier Ford:'We’ll always be there to support our (enter lie here) system.' Whether it be educational, health care or the disabled, our drug dealer premier peddles the same bullshit everyday. Doug drug dealer Ford, gettin' nothin' done
Good!
How about the people impose on the Ford government that they actually do something useful and productive for the first time in their careers?
Beautiful! Some of the highest-paid teachers in North America. ZEROSympathy ZEROFucksGivens
If they do increase the wages then they should also increase the educational requirements for the job. Going to college for 1 year and making a starting salary of 60K is not realistic. CUPE is not being realistic at all.
Doug Ford ‘We’re carving up workers rights!’
if you can't strike then what's the point of ever having a contract you can't take away the only power people have and say too bad
Good. The last thing kids need right now is to be shut out of school again.
This nonsense started a long time ago. It will only get worse.
Wow ... Disgusting.
Education workers deserve a fair contract. A 33 cent wage increase is a slap in the face. How about lowering gas prices and inflation at the grocery stores so people dont have to depend on food stamps or working 2 or 3 jobs
This is not the teachers it is the administration staff, custodian staff, early childhood educates and educational assistance staff
So outrageous. You are a coward and a bully Sflecce
I’m betting that most of the ones crying here voted Ford back in for a second term
Most of these comments are so horribly misinformed and framed by our governments and media. It would be very interesting to see theses comments “redone” if it was their child or child with special needs who desperately needed these and more of these services.
That’s it, go after the lowest paid educational workers. Show me a good school and I’ll show you hardworking, caring secretaries and custodians. They made my teaching days a lot easier.
This is NOT TEACHERS! Read the information before making irrelevant comments
So if they refuse to go back. Who the fuck are they going to replace them with in this short labour market. CUPEOntario the homeless. There is noe one else out there. CUPEOntario hold your ground.
Going to have street riots. Starving the people is never good for politicians. Now imposing more on people?
Good. The children deserve better then these greedy woke unions
He keeps emphasizing keeping kids in school. A bigger threat to attendance currently is illness as a result of unsafe schools. (no masks and lack of investment in air quality)
This is a decision that they will pay for later on RETROACTIVELY
Isn’t that taking away their rights? Listen to these people, they are the ones responsible for teaching our future leaders! Get you head out of the sand Ford
This government hasn't got the capacity to negotiate or bargain.
I'm fine with that.
Hay reminder win did this and got sued so hard as it is a volition of the charter. So let’s hope ford learns his lesson when he goes to court
When is the Ford government going to treat all school boards equally? How can French board not have as many resources for their kids as English ones because there are less students? Less in number but NOT in importance!
GeneralStrikeNow
So the province can prevent teachers from striking; but can’t seem to use the same effects to control prices on goods/services? Now we know why right-wing administrators are pro-business.
Good
If they are not deemed essential services then the govt will have a hard time enforcing the legislation. The right to association and therefore collective bargaining is a federal charter right, not a provincial nice to have.
Lol good they deserve it.
GOOD!
Working is a privilege not a right. You CHOOSE to be a teacher. Wierd how this works. Also protesting is illegal if it affects others in any way. Plz evoke emergency measures act and freeze bank accts and arrest offenders if they protest.
So disturbing!
Don't legislate! Negotiate! Suppressed wages are the reason we're in a cost-of-living crisis.
2% increase? Lol
Good the children deserve a education and consistency .
Lol it won’t prevent a thing
Better. Illegally. Would illegally impose.
Doesn’t everyone wish they can strike for higher wages (when they want) and walk off they job like teachers/education workers and Nurses? I see a pattern 🤔
They should take their case to the thousands of Ontarians that have to work three or more jobs just to make ends meet.
You might as well put a gun to your own head.
FordMustGo
Leece continues to be a soul sucking demon
Disgusting
Good, if nurses can’t strike babysitters and cleaners can shut down childrens education. It’s about time
This is totally unethical! What a tool! This isn't Russia. Canadians have the right for collective bargaining!!!!
It's not the teacher going on strike educate yourself before posting crap. This is about education assistants, secretaries, custodians, maintenance worker. EA's get paid shit and endure so much.
It's about Time !! These Unions only benefit lazy people. What if everyone was in a Union. means everyone would have great benefits, big raises, more vacation, etc. and it would drive up our costs even more. fordnation
No bargaining in good faith here. SHAME on Doug ford for treating education workers so differently than he treated his own staff. Why do education workers deserve less
12% increases for one year is out of reach .Ontario government passing legislation not to strike is taking away their rights both parties should be more responsible to negotiate a FAIR DEAL.
Teachers want more money. Nurses get nothing.
Now do a piece connecting the dots. FordFailedOntaro FordFailedThePeople
Strike! Strike! Strike! Everywhere. Everyone.
Good. Kids and parents have struggled the last two and a half years. We don’t need any further disruptions to their education.
Hey Cp24 why not use the other picture of Ford and Lecce walking the school hallway Masked! I thought they weren’t needed! He gave his cabinet a 17% raise plus 2300 housing allowance.
FIRELECCE
Workers can’t accept the state telling us when we’re “allowed to strike”
Bullying, plain and simple. Pay these people a fair wage, provide them with security and benefits and things they need to protect their family, so that they can teach ours!!!
Thank you Ford! It would be better if the education system is rebuilt from scratch
It's about time.
this is some bullshit, total lack of respect for the education workers. Goverment had no problem giving themselves a raise during the pandemic. Do the right thing, this is another infringement of our rights and freedoms.
Finally someone has the guts to do something with this useless unions 👍🏼
Amazing comments. Did you all know your educators in your 10/daycare make less than what you would consider a liveable wage? Bunch of hypocrites
I am curious how this can happen? When the last government lost the court challenge against this? What happened to fair bargaining, the right to bargain? What is the use of pretending to go through the steps of bargaining, if the government is just going to impose a contract?
As long as it includes binding arbitration the workers should make out OK. Historically public servants have fared better from arbitration vs negotiation.
PC government has always been against organized labour!
One of the biggest problems is allowing teacher's to retire and come back and work taking spots for the new people that went to school for the jobs
Sflecce you say that the government has no choice, but you do. Try actually sitting at the table and bargaining an agreement!!
Sflecce took $465 million out of the education budget to pay parents, when $235 million would have avoided a strike. onted IStandWithCUPE
Doug ford is so far right, he is left
Robin Hood reversed. Time for all unions to show solidarity and support and win back Ontario from these greedy men. wildcarwalkout
More government overreach. This will not benefit anyone.
So when will all the individual rights crusaders descend on Queens Park in opposition to a government that is actually trampling on the rights of workers?
Great for the kids!
ALL education workers UNIONS should stick together and shut down schools next week. This government will continue bulldozing trash agreements. Health Care your next! He can legislate all he wants, if you're on the streets that's your strength. Bargaining isn't working
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For those who said 'Leave', you could explain to a disabled child why they are not getting any help to further their education. Forcing to accept a contract may result to a bare minimum work like work to rule method
Do it up!
How about the joke of government pony up on that surplus cash he’s sitting on Bonkers
COMING ON REMEMBRANCE DAY ALL THAT THOSE MEN FOUGHT AND LOST THEIR LIVES FOR BEING SLOWLY STRIPPED AWAY EVERY TIME FORD DOESN'T GET HIS WAY HE JUST TAKES AWAY ANOTHER RIGHT. IT WON'T STOP WITH TEACHERS. HE CERTAINLY DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE AVERAGE PERSON HE INCREASES GOV PAYS.
Obviously the news outlet aka CP24 using the term “education workers” is confusing many people purposely.. transparency please
Where’s the dictator crowd now?
Ridiculous After kids have been so hurt by Covid how can any education worker even consider striking? Shameful !!
People who voted for Ontario Conservatives & those who did not this is what you get! No matter fewer choices on a Voter list you must think about what is really happening in your World not what some Politician is telling you & vote! CBCNews
Thought this was a free country.. More and more Canada is turning into a dictatorship. Wake Up
Are teachers outraged? Can you imagine having your government unilaterally take your right to strike away and force you to do what they want you to do Now that WE have established that, you better understand the metaphorical connection to the plight of the unvaccinated
Thank you Doug and Stephen! Keep up the good work in very trying times.
I’m trying to wrap my head around why we have unions and pay such high dues if the gov takes away the right to fair bargaining like nursing they have no right to strike are ordered to work and government decides the pay increase
Good!
Get outta town Sflecce. Parents want these workers to have a decent living wage.
Good kids need to be in school that is a must after the last two years
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Get the facts! Ed assistants pension is $800/month if they can take the violence they deal with until 65! Lecce calls this “generous”. Where is he going to find $55,000 workers to replace support workers that don’t go to work due to his failed negotiation?
Sorry but in 64 there were an average of 40 kids in a class with only 1 teacher to deal. I'd like to see these teachers handle all of that today.
It’s easy to negotiate when you know you don’t have to and can just job people who lay the foundations for the next generation.
Govt should NOT force a contract on workers when the govt fails to negotiate fairly with them but then gives THEMSELVES bigger raises.
Quiet quitting 😌 😴 👌 😀😀😀
Lecce the elitist, educated in private schools. Throws the children of the working class under the bus. ontEdSolidarity IStandWithCUPE FireLecce NeverVoteConservative
Make sure you fight this ccp government Teachers__Unite wrdsb and maintain freedoms to protest protected by our charter our courts literally told me.we dont have a charter anymore so remind them who tells who what and what we do and dont have still in Canada and human rights
So much for democracy....
this is the Ford legacy....
Do not give them more money, left wing teachers should life in poverty, focus on more important problems
Has he considered instead not fighting a proper COLA? They also need a better union, they're does nothing for them sadly
Sflecce I guess the raise you took in 2020 of 10.2% increase was reasonable for you. Reference the Ontario Sunshine List 2020Minister, Education$165,851$259 10.2% increase in wages
Better idea. Abolish public sector unions and allow people to attain raises based on job performance. Stop letting unions use the kids as political pawns to justify their own existence.
Sounds like the government is setting themselves up for another lawsuit they will lose.
Sflecce News behind the headline 'Health care is ready for privatization & Education is next' 👏👏👏
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It’s incredible the amount of people who think these are teachers. This is support staff, the education assistants, custodians. The people who support the kids, administrators and keep schools clean. They do extremely important work & deserve a decent raise. They keep kids safe
Absolutely disgusting. Give the Support staff the raise, you can sure dish out the money when you want it. 413 and raises for your inside staff
I love it. Enough is enough. Teachers are spoiled in Ontario. If a teacher wants to keep his/her job, just go out there and WORK like normal taxpayers do. Teachers, you need to work. It is so simple
Education support workers are just as essential as teachers. They like nurses in hospital are the lifeline of schools. Yet nurses and educational support workers aren’t given what they deserve. I stand with both. I’m a parent of three.
Might as well just come out and say the illusion of a free society has come to an end.
Parents can rest easy this week because Doug Ford’s government refuses to give in to the union goons. FordNation onpoli
Tight pants force lol
Someone voted for them
No one gave a shit when Canada Post workers were legislated back to work when we were trying to fight for a better wage. If they do it once they'll do it again...
Well there goes democracy
Look at all the lefties scream and kick when it is their rights being trampled on!
That’s for the 60% of people who didn’t vote. You get no right to strike.
Seems constitutional.
TRANSLATION: Doug Ford & his Conservative goons continue to make a mockery of Democracy.
Breaking news burden goes to sleep for good
Fuck Cupe
This is 100% legal and democratic. Deal with it snowflakes! Oh, and this isn't a Conservative thing. For almost over a decade the Wynne and McGuinty Liberals were also treating educational assistants like cheap labor, which is basically what they are. Truth hurts!
Truly horrifying. Ontario PCs gutting the worker.
that's authoritarian rule. Judged illegal last time
Ontario teachers are pathetic, among the highest paid in the WORLD. After an extended, multi-year vacation via covid and kids suffering they still want to pull the same dirty tricks they have been pulling for years. HEY TEACHERS, THINK ABOUT THE KIDS EDUCATION AND NOT YOURSELF.
Teachers make 100k a year and work 9 months. They are not required to work in the real world or develop any real world business skills. A reality check is desperately needed.
How about mass resignations
is this the same prov that snubbs the health care workers .. ok got it .. its the workers again .. just not satisfied with 1.5%
We will fight you premier Ford & your education minister 55,000 of us till we get a fair deal just watch us 🖕
Thug tactics.
Does the general public know that they don’t have enough EA’s as it is? They can’t fill jobs nor get supplies to fill absences. You can’t work a job like that and not be able to live anywhere near your work bc you can’t afford bills.
They want chaos in healthcare and education. That’s the plan.
I don’t know how they can do this to people when they make a ridiculous amount of money, work five months of the year, and have a car and housing allowance. Shame
The government agrees to the right to strike. They can easily take it away by legislating education as an essential service. But no they’d rather legislate people back to work and force arbitration to show how much of a bully they are. Remember 90% are WOMAN!!!!! Let that sink in
Shame on your .. you coward.. hiding behind legislation.. so 2 % under $40000.. if one reaches over $40000 it’s then 1.25%..
If I'm not wrong aren't teachers prevented from striking in Québec since the 1980s? Bus drivers are also considered essential. They drive Sunday schedule and don't wear their uniforms.
It’s always school employees. They never want to work. If it was up to them schools would still be closed.
Good, union is lying about how much they make in their PR campaign. They start at $22. Many would take that with good benefits.
Good.
Bingo
Give them a wage worth working for. The average wage here is 39,000 dollars. This is Ontario they are living in. This government is ridiculously sexist and incredibly arrogant. dotherightthing
1.5% pay increase while inflation is so high, why does the ford government want to starve education workers?
Conservatives are scum
Well.. that solves everything….
Slavery is back y’all and this time it’s diverse.
Good!
well done ridiculous what the union is proposing
Doug Ford+Stephen Lecce= UNEDUCATED BULLIES! They have BOTH placed undue hardships on & allowed for a continual reduction in the standard of living of ALL education workers in this province. Man up and NEGOTIATE w/o removing the right to bargain. You're also wrecking Healthcare!
Stephen is a real Leech
1st Forced vaccines, 2nd Emergency act, 3rd remove right to strike. The Canadian govt is on a very slippery slope! All Ontarians need to stand with Cupe Ed. Workers. It's about our rights, whats next?
The media should be reporting how wrong this is.The Ford government has refused to budge to allow them a living wage while giving themselves a $60000/yr raise.We are going to lose alot of these people just like with our healthcare workers.Stop treating like they are enemies
Here we are now living in the days where supposed 'democracy' dies in Ontario. We KNEW it was always here 'lurking', but now the enforcers will bulldoze through without conscious. It's going to get worse, because there are agendas to be had, NOT in our favour. NOT a conspiracy 😉
Democracy eh!
Hey they love mandates. Enjoy.
Should also include: violate their protected right to collective bargain in the headline as well.
fordnation you are modern day evil incarnate.
CUPE shouldn’t be mad that government is telling them what to do! Never forget the get a jab or lose your job narrative!
Look at my government hard at work 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Good
Great call!
Funny when the government doesn't like something they just make a bill, a by-law or impose whatever legislation that works for them.
Great.. paid extremely well. Best pension and benefit. Off 2.5 months plus stat holidays .. and they still want more…
I didn't realize Ontario is currently governed by a dictatorship who's apparent mandate is to destroy our public services while simultaneously avoiding any and all accountability.
Don’t like the wage…. Don’t take the job 🤷♂️
Judicial review in 5. 4. 3. 2. 1…
Can we legislate Lecce out of his job? Guy makes 160k a year and does absolutely nothing. Anyone supporting him and this government is either trolling or or have never worked a day in their in life.
Strike anyway
Didn't expect different from these clowns
Wait so this is the same government that supported the so call freedom convoy?
Where are the freedumbers now? When the government actually takes rights away they are nowhere to be seen
End of the day the kids suffer. The past few years have been BRUTAL my child started grade 1 and didnt get back to class a full year since. This will (hopefully) be his year catching up in grade 4 with immense tutor as well.
There Is no Hearting this tweet, as it's stating DohFo's ClusterFord gov will Dictate your working terms/pay/conditions without actually negotiating any of that.
This is too important to let slide. Teachers unions better be paying attention to this and throw some weight here or else their next to be bullied.
Good. Union doesn't care about the children.
They're demanding a yearly raise of 18%. That means their wages would more than double every 5 years. That's stupid. Their demands are rediculous.
Toldja they'd do it by Monday… That was always the plan.
$39K is not a workable wage for anyone let alone those responsible for helping to educate the youth, you would think Sflecce knows that given his own $10k raise, but conservative hypocrisy knows no bounds
Easy to say when government employees are financially stable
So glad we live in a dictatorship where government scraps collective bargaining, and sues so it can’t tell the truth or release mandate letter.
How do education unions get designated an essential service for labour negotiation reasons?
CUPE is toxic
Are the FreeDumb Freaks going to protest this?
Illegal bullshit FireLecce
Another invasion by a majority government that doesn’t give a shit about education, health care, long term care, or anything else but their own agenda.
Our Fascist government is slowly dismantling our rights bit by bit. People have a right to strike ffs unless the work stoppage would jeopardize public safety which it doesn't. Open your eyes people.
Good for them. Enough is enough. Put the children 1st
How do you impose a “contract”? Total BS! Optics only.
Good!
Perfect. Enough of their strikes
Do you agree
Perfect timing for this post. Takes the attention away from the Maple Leafs.
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