Laura Walton, president of Ontario School Board Council of Unions, an affiliate of CUPE that represents the workers, said the parties started talking last week, and were “far apart” in reaching a negotiated deal. The possibility of the union issuing another five-day strike notice would be determined in the “next few days” depending on the progress of negotiations, she said.
Mr. Ford’s unprecedented move too fast-track legislation sparked widespread condemnation in the labour movement, including from private-sector unions that the government counts as supporters, as well as from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. The use of the notwithstanding clause in the legislation allowed the government to insulate laws that violate a long list of rights from court challenges.
Laura Walton, the president of CUPE's Ontario School Board Council of Unions, stands with members of CUPE’s negotiating team, from left, Erin Provost, Laurie Lucciola, Todd Canning, Joe Tigani, Keith Levere and Mike Galipeau, at the Queens Park Legislature, in Toronto, on Nov. 14.
Mark Hancock, CUPE’s national president, said on Monday that no government had ever scrapped its own legislation as quickly as Mr. Ford did with Bill 28. The contract that the government had sought to impose unilaterally in the strike-ban legislation last week included 2.5-per-cent annual wage hikes for workers earning less than $43,000, and 1.5-per-cent increases for those earning more – much lower than the union’s demands.
If one is employed by the taxpayer Go To Work .
These labour issues have been around since McGuinty, Wynne and now Ford. There needs to be an overhaul to the system that works best for both the public finances and the workers.
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