CUPE Ontario education workers file another strike notice: Lecce
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CUPE Ontario education workers have set a new strike date of Nov. 21.
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“We are disappointed that only a few short days after talks restarted, CUPE has filed notice to once again shut down classrooms,” Education Minister Stephen Lecce said Thursday. “Since resuming talks, we’ve put forward multiple improved offers that would have added hundreds of millions of dollars across the sector, especially for lower income workers.”
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CUPE has rejected all of these offers, Lecce added.
Laura Walton, president of CUPE-OSBCU, and national CUPE President Mark Hancock have scheduled a media conference for 10 a.m.
In a notice posted online, the union said that despite many late hour attempts to achieve a freely negotiated settlement, talks have broken down again and the “difficult decision” was made to serve a five-day strike notice to the Ontario government and the Council of Trustees Association.
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“The OSBCU remains focused on not only achieving a deal that provides workers with a liveable wage but ensures that the services that students need are improved and protected,” the union notice says.
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Walton has earlier said that the government has offered a bigger pay hike to lower earners and the union will not accept a tiered wage increase.
The union previously walked off the job in protest after the Doug Ford government brought in legislation that used the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to ban a planned strike and impose a contract.
The Ford government repealed the legislation Monday on the condition that the education workers would end their protest that closed most classrooms in Ontario to in-person learning.
aartuso@postmedia.com
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