CUPE says it reached middle ground with the government on wages but the notice of a potential provincewide strike comes after what it calls a refusal from the province to "invest in the services that students need and parents expect."
On Monday, Ontario repealed controversial legislation that had imposed a contract on the workers and banned them from striking.
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CUPE school support staff set to strike again after talks with province break downHundreds of thousands of parents and students should brace for more labour uncertainty in schools after unionized support staff are set to walk off the job again. Not surprising ford and leece are bargaining in bad faith. If they wont listen to the unions bottom line then this is what they ask for. They want to keep the money for their own raises. CUPE are greedy shameful lazy and entitled. The slogan and Act 'Keeping Students in Class' was a massive failure on Lecce's part on November 4 & 7. Stating truisms (benefit of being in school) doesn't deliver execution without the goodwill of workers. Looks like he'll add November 21 to his list of failures.
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Ford government kills controversial bill that ordered CUPE school staff back to workOntario government had made the promise to rescind Bill 28 — the Keeping Students in Class Act — to help mend fences with the labour movement. Why is ordering striking workers back to work bills now controversial? Multiple governments have been doing this for several decades. Where are they in their Talks ? Ford playing games ?
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Ontario government, CUPE still 'far apart' at the bargaining table as education law is revokedThe union representing education workers across the province says they are still “far apart” from reaching a new contract at the bargaining table with the Ontario government. A shooting 2 weeks ago and now a stabbing in a school. Yet these union leaders don’t even mention it or care about school safety More to be made as tutors ...less bureacracy own hours. Public schools have a shelf life Why not have arbitration instead of cupe
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