Ontario parents, students in limbo as deliberations over education workers’ strike continue at labour board
Ontario parents and students are in limbo Sunday about school plans for this week as a labour board continues its hearing on the legality of an indefinite walkout by education workers in protest of a contract imposed on the union by the province.after the Ontario government legislated a four-year contract on the union and revoked its right to legally strike or challenge the contract in court through use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause.
Many schools – including in Toronto, York and Peel – were closed Friday as the union defied the government and walked out. Education Minister Stephen Lecce has vowed to get the more than one million students across Ontario who were forced to stay home on Friday back in classrooms using “every tool available.”Steven Barrett, lawyer for the union, argued that the only option left for workers was to protest the government stripping their Charter-protected rights.
The Ontario Federation of Labour organized protests across the province on Saturday in support of education workers, including one at Yonge and Dundas square in Toronto.
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