Frontline healthcare workers and staff in licensed childcare settings will be given access to free childcare for their elementary-aged children in the event of a strike by school support staff, Education Minister Stephen Lecce has announced.
Approximately 55,000 CUPE members will be in a legal strike position as of Monday and most boards in the GTA have indicated that schools will close for in-person learning should the workers walk off the job for the second time this month.
But he said that if CUPE opts to strike, the government will provide free childcare to both eligible healthcare workers and childcare workers “for the duration” of any work stoppage. “We remain on the side of all parents who just want to see their children in the classroom learning,” he said. “We’ll continue to be at the table to make that happen.”
The union has maintained that money is no longer the primary road block to an agreement, however Lecce has cast doubt on that claim, calling it the “fundamental fault line.”
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