and its members in the education sector would not be able to challenge back-to-work legislation for the next five years.
And there have been significant wins on the wage front. The BC General Employees’ Union, for example, negotiated a historic double-digit wage hike of 14 per cent over three years for 33,000 public-sector workers who went on strike in September, rejecting an 11-per-cent offer from the province. “This is an extremely aggressive assertion from the Ford government to prevent a strike, especially in a situation involving education workers, who are usually not deemed essential unlike health care workers,” said Eric Tucker, professor emeritus at York University, specializing in labour law.
The problem for unions is that even when they mount a legal challenge to back-to-work legislation, it sometimes takes years for the challenge to make its way through the courts. “Typically, back-to-work legislation takes force immediately and that’s the end of it,” said Prof. Tucker. “There are of course situations where unions have defied these laws and not gone back to work, but they are pretty uncommon partly because of the financial penalties for not obeying,” he added.
A law license doesn’t constitute expertise
Ford should really clean house and get rid of the woke leftist indoctrination in our schools and institutions at this same time...
When your rights and freedoms can legally be suspended you never had them in the first place
But totally reasonable.
globebusiness Doug is now a dictator. Plain and simple. DictatorDoug fordnation Sflecce OntarioPCParty GeneralStrike
Politically fraught? It’s an easy call for him. Not one teacher or support worker was ever going to vote for him regardless. This is what you get when you politicize education and healthcare.
Anybody else find it interesting that fordnation imposes the “notwithstanding” clause the day before he argues “parliamentary privilege” to avoid the EA Inquiry 🧐😡 ontpoli cdnpoli osbcucscso CP24 CBCToronto ETFOeducators onted
Children were deprived an education during school closures, which were unnecessary. If greedy teacher unions want to inflict more pain and learning loss, force them to the classrooms.
“Section 33, the notwithstanding clause, is so rarely invoked that in the first few decades of the Charter, some thought it to be political suicide.” Bye bye Ford.
Oh yah, god forbid kids should be in school after 2 years of being jerked around…
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