The legislature met at 5 a.m. today for the second reading of the “Keeping Students in Schools Act,” which aims to impose a four-year contract on education workers and bar them from striking.Lecce introduced the legislation Monday afternoon after an emergency mediated session the day before between CUPE, the province, a mediator and school board representatives failed to yield a deal.
Ontario’s education workers have been without a collective agreement since Aug. 31 and despite several rounds of talks, a new one has yet to be negotiated. The Ford government’s latest offer, proposed at an emergency mediated session Sunday afternoon, is a four-year deal that includes a 2.5 per cent annual raise for workers who make under $43,000, and a 1.5 per cent yearly wage increase for those who make more. This is up from their initial offer of annual increases of a two per cent raise for workers who make less than $40,000 and a 1.25 per cent raise otherwise.
Oh look They found fordnation
I listened to Lecce's interview in the Power and Politics podcast and he made two very salient points. 1. For every dollar spent on education in total, 80 cents goes to labour. 2. Ontario education workers are the highest paid in the entire country.
Hardest they've ever worked
“this Act would provide that it shall operate notwithstanding sections 2, 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and despite the Human Rights Code.” And 4k / day fine for people making $40k a year. Stop this 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲
Thankyou minister for putting our kids education and mental health first!
fordnation you should be embarrassed. The work these EA’s do with compassion and dignity to be paid peanuts. Laid off all summer on EI is not sick days. Stop lying to the public. Your strong arm use to force a bad contract after years of low pay and disrespect to these workers.
doesnt matter they said fair wage or strike regardless so..... nothing ya do but fair wage will stop it
Support Lecce! Unacceptable blackmail and again harm to our kids! No one gets 11% annual increase CUPEOntario ! And our kids are not pawns for you to play with! Hope you get fined every single one of you and with the money, we're given to hire tutors! Sflecce fordnation
Useless
Love it :)
Weird how they all clap for each other after every sentence. It's so fake and ridiculous. Lecce just repeats the same thing over and over 'keep kids in school'. There's no actual discussion. Just grandstanding.
Yes, please interview ECE worker perhaps with TDSB. Ask them how they enjoy their life living around poverty line?
PM Trudeau condemns Ford's legislating against labour action. The Bill would ban workers from striking 'Using the notwithstanding clause to suspend workers' rights is wrong'
It's about time a government has stood up for the silent majority.
NeverVoteConservative
Finally, a majority government with some balls that is standing up for the silent majority that works hard every day without all the benefits of the public service. We have all heard about all the perks of the public service and how happy they are with their pensions.
Sooooo our governments keep adding more paid off days for themselves as holidays for whatever reason they can think of, give themselves raises and bonuses, and can't seem to offer any type of negotiation......
This heavy handed government is disgusting. To further their own agenda, they impose their will. The result is we have a disgruntled workforce and consequently, a disengaged lot of teachers. Whoare the losers now? THE KIDS!!
Fire all the CUPE workers. Never forget they got paid full salary the last two years sitting at home.
FordNation needed nearly 2 weeks to declare a State of Emergency in Ontario during the Occupation. At work at 5 a.m. to violate education workers' rights 3 ways from Sunday. One's priorities are that for which one makes time. ThatFuckerDougFord
Fire them all and replace them with contract workers.
TDotGinger Debate? Cons have a major Govt. What they say goes. End of discussion🙄
Oh look the little weasel got up early this morning he’s scared look at him very scared
Got up extra early today to figure out new ways to screw over workers?
😡🤡🐂💩🤮🤮🤮🤮
Make education an essential service and this union will finally crumble.
Oh so Leece does work lol
Instead of wasting time pay up or put some old farmers to run this Provence
Oh shit theyre actually at work
Good!
Great to see early morning government at work. Rise and shine to rip rights away from workers in Ontario. Maybe they didn’t need that 6 weeks off in September and October, could of used that time to negotiate in good faith. Reminder: gov doesn’t care about your kids.
and Sflecce and his fellow dommers continue to stomp on us and stomp out of the room
Was DictatorDoug there? FireLecce ResignDougFord
POS
Debate what exactly. They ate gonna do it no matter what anyone says. This is a clear violation of the charter and they don't care. This is about power and dominance. Time for General strike.
EMERGENCY ACT! If one person honks during their walkout in support they are extremists!
fordnation Sflecce why do you not listen to the people actually out there working in these conditions with this low pay!! You are liars and don’t care about the education system!!
excellent 😊 good job Mr. Ford you should be prime minister of Canada 🇨🇦
Notwithstanding clause is a bad bad precedent for ALL! What Tories is doing is WRONG!
Sflecce mr private school is upset he had to wake up early for once
Where's LARD O FORD
fordnation s pudgy , white hands have never seen an honest day’s work. No lesson plans, marking, showing up for work everyday….not for this elitist, privileged few. And, they want to take away the rights of those who earned them. fordnation is a soft bully.
The dictatorship is up early this morning
It's anti person debate. They're exploiting laws that were never meant for this.
Lecce sacrificing his sleep for the “good” of the kids. Does he expect a medal for undermining the collective bargaining process?
Evil works in darkness
Can you please also report what the Union is demanding-11.7% per year over 4 years when factoring compounding is over 48% over the term of the contract-is that reasonable
garbage government. can’t wait for the walk out on Friday ❤️
ontedsolidarity
this is not worth a comment
We should be able to see this.
They dont need more than 39k a year. I bet half of workers in ontario dont make 39k a year. How about pay everyone equal and not a bunch of people who dont even need it. If they make 39k and spouse make 30k thats 69k a year which is plenty for a house hold.
I hope these teachers still walk off from their jobs by end of the week. This dictatorship will not end well for Ford government onpoli
Thank you fordnation and Sflecce someone has to stand up for the kids. Take that money and put it back into the education system. The kids need all the help they can get at this point.
Hey CP 24 have you interviewed an education worker recently? You are more like FOX news opinion than actual news. So one sided. It's dangerous. The deal is far worse than what they have now. Dive in. Do your job.
Cowards.
It's nice to see Sflecce actually show up for something. I was starting to think he was just a bot online
Screw the unions!! Keep the kids in class. Bravo Lecce 👌👏
Get er done and keep the kids in class
Why is this not live ? Did the dictator show up or is he on his way to Ottawa ?
Did dictator Doug show up?
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