The labour dispute between educational workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, and Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government has escalated this week. The union issued its strike notice on Sunday and the government responded with back-to-work legislation that included the controversial notwithstanding clause on Monday.
Talks broke down on Thursday afternoon after the mediator decided the two sides were still too far apart. The union has decided to proceed with a protest that the province’s legislation has made illegal. The Globe’s future of work reporter Vanmala Subramaniam explains why many union leaders across the country are keeping a close eye on what happens next.
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Education has been underfunded for decades by many different governments. But Ford is the worst.
if you dont want to teach my kids dont fucking pretend to in teh first place. you dont deserve anything from me after how many times i have to take off work to watch my kids for your fucking stupid "strikes" . GROW UP AND GO THE FUCK TO WORK
Try working at Tim Hortons, that is real work in a fast paced on your feet, all hands on deck day.
Library, custodial, administrative in the education system, this is tough work ?
why does the news app headline say the strike is illegal? isn't that what the legislation is for? why is the globe and mail pushing such an aggressive and factually inaccurate headline?
maybe newspapers and media should uphold their ethical responsibility to present facts without the taint of their increasing and problematic bias.
CUPE wants kids to have the safe, functional classrooms they deserve, which includes paying workers enough to at least make-up the 10% effective pay-cut inflation and past short-sighted cheap-skating by Doug Ford has imposed on them and allowing them to focus on their jobs without needing to use food-banks to feed their families. The treasonous Ontario PCs want to warehouse kids in dysfunctional and dangerous conditions for the profit of their oligarchic masters. Whose side are you on?
Solidarity!
if the teachers want to refuse to work when do we as parents start to get their pay checks??? they aren't teaching my kid obviously
I'm for the workers not the politicians. The support staff deserves a wage that at least grows with inflation.
charge them for every single day they refuse to teach my child and send those funds to the parents who now have to miss work to teach their child
Canadian Schools are useless anyways, so let them strike.
Do Ontarians on C.P.P. and O.A.S. and ETC. get a inflation rate yearly increase ? Their yearly pay is much , much lower than any profession. Not a chance ! Theses people have worked and paid taxes their whole life time.
Get rid of the NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE because it will RUIN Canada. Both Ford and Legault use it like it is going out of style.
what, they dont like their rights being taken away?
Shhhshhh Globe and Mail, you might upset Doug!
Bunch of idiots the whole lot of them hopefully the Ford government will fine them at least 4000 dollars a day lol oh and what is a woman?
Asking 11% what are they thing!
Fire them all. They are worse-than-useless programmers. They're expensive and work less than everyone else for doing a bad job of babysitting.
Everyday that your children are not in these Marxist communist mind control facilities aka schools is a great day!
more looney con ignorance
They could settle for 6 percent ? For now
This is populism, No?
I thought populism was racist and bad?
Shame on them all after what the kids have been through last 2 years. Rotating strikes going INTO Covid and now here we are with no education for Ontario children. These kids have missed SO much. Nurses are not getting any increase and private sector no way reflects pay raises teaches are asking for. Who else in Canada is getting more than a 2.5% increase??? Unions NEVER happy when a Conservative leader is in charge.
Under this law they loose all there charter rights. Fascisms
ENTIRE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT IS CORUPT —– SHAME ON YOU JUST LIKE THE LIBERALS WHAT IS NEXT EMERGENCY ACT – – – Mr Ford you have now shown your true colors – – they are not any better than TRUDEAU I now have no faith in Conservatives you will not get my vote SHAME ON YOU START A TRACK record as refuse there rights to STRIKE – FAMILIES STAND BY THE EDUCATORS
We would not have this shit if we weren't so OVER TAXED TO BEGIN WITH.
No one remembers the filler in education. Simplify school for real world experience. When was the last time most of us used algebra? Spelling, grammar and punctuation are dead on social media. Generations of people now say, "Where's my keys?" Where are my keys, is correct. If teachings aren't followed, what's the point of teaching?
Perhaps Mr. Ford should try living on $39 000 a year for at least one year including moving into an apartment for that year so that he can experience real life.
CUPE is evil,they are selfish and greedy,they are garbage , support PM FORD,Thousands and thousands parents are with PM FORD
If trade unions had stood up for the unvaccinated, then this attempt by the Ontario government would never have happened. Bad karma that: Abandoning a threatened minority during the lockdowns.
Good ! The Federal Government has the galls to spend millions of taxpayers' dollars to aid the Nazi Ukrainian regime, but has no money for it's own education system is a sign Canada is now run by clueless Wokiests brainwashing Canadians with it's mainstream media !
Someone disagrees with you? Just make their ability to protest illegal. Covid, now this. The pattern is control.
Freeze the strikers bank accounts…..they are a waste of space. Education system in Canada is a joke……home school your kids, these teachers just want to push the alphabet community agenda on your kids and put them on puberty blockers.
just take more $ from other provinces like AB to pay for it.. juts like everything else in Canada
I want bank accounts frozen, rubber bullets and horses.
This legislation would make slaves of citizens
Following the trend of recent years, governments trying to take away more rights.
Let them be on strike forever… y’all don’t want to teach anymore anyways… GO GET A JOB AY WALMART FOR ALL I CARE.
Ford, you did a good job. Useless teachers in this province that had laptop latte classes in the last 2 years meanwhile corrupted Liberal government shut down businesses and lockdown! Teachers still made money last 2 years where rest of us had to open our piggy bank to pay rent.
There was just absolutely no way the "clause" can be used so often. That clause was only to be used in extreme circumstances and not every other year of your term.
https://youtu.be/fIb1BJfBJmE
Well, so much for our Charter of(Non) Rights.
Collective bargaining is de facto circumvented.( Not withstanding Clause, WTF?)
Ford Government was quick to lock down schools without any scientific data to justify these measures during the Scandemic.
Which, BTW now even his “Holiness” Pope Anthony Fauci admits wasn’t neccessary.
Yahoo Ford , like his bosom buddy, Trudeau, has taken a big slurp of the Koolaid called power.
He’s a big Phony as his refusal to testify at Trudy’s illegal. “ Emergency Act” invocation proves.
Although, I’ll vote for a conservative Party, it sure as hell won’t be for the “ Liberal Light Ford Party”.
I stand with the teachers and their support staff. Trying to take away their right to strike is unprincipled and unethical. The conservatives should stop giving so many breaks to business and increase support to education.
This is why you don't vote conservative.
Home school is the answer.
Wake up Ontario. This discriminatory Bill 28 is no different than Bill 124, which imposed a wage cap on health care workers. Ford's government is above the law & doesn't believe in democracy. Say goodbye to your human rights in Ontario.
Fire all of them
DOUG CONSERVATIVES ARE YOU SMARTER THEN A 5TH GRADER EVEN OUR KIDS ARE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW RIGHTS TO GROW UP GET A JOB NEED THE RIGHT TO BARGAIN LIVING WAGES KIDS SUPPORT RIGHT'S TO BARGAIN LIVING WAGES WHEN THEY HIT THE WORKFORCE SO YOUR NOT SMARTER THAN 5TH GRADER