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THUNDER BAY – Local education workers were out in force on Friday morning, defying provincial legislation that imposed a contract settlement and required them to be at work, picketing instead outside local Progressive Conservative MPP Kevin Holland’s newly opened James Street constituency office.
Devin Klassen, the head shop steward for CUPE Local 2486 and a custodian at Westgate Collegiate and Vocational Institute, said his union is standing up for all workers in its opposition of Bill 28, which the province passed on Thursday night. CUPE members, whose lowest-paid education workers make $39,000 a year, were seeking an annual increase of $3.25 per hour per year of the contract, a number the province has said is not affordable and would set a precedent for negotiations with other school-based unions.“Immediately following proclamation of the Keeping Students in Class Act, we filed a submission to the Ontario Labour Relations Board in response to CUPE’s illegal strike action.
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