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Devin Klassen is a custodian working for Lakehead District School Board and a member of the CUPE Ontario School Boards Council of Unions education workers’ central bargaining committee.I was drawn to a career as a front-line education worker because my mother is an educational assistant and my father is a retired custodian.
My 55,000 coworkers and I, all of us members of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions, are bargaining to guarantee increased services for students, protect service levels against cuts, and help solve school boards’ problems retaining and recruiting workers. Because Doug Ford’s government cut education funding by $800 per student during its first four years in office – the removal of $1.6 billion last year alone – school board bosses here are cutting three maintenance workers and 13 custodians.I’m a rotation custodian. My hours are 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. one week, the next week I’ll be scheduled to work 3 to 11 p.m.
Now imagine doing this for a month, or several months straight. Think about how exhausted and how much less productive you’d be. I struggle to answer that question, especially when education minister Stephen Lecce could be heard in the provincial legislature making the absurd claim that some 3,000 or 5,000 more people, depending on the day, have magically appeared to work in schools this September because of his and premier Doug Ford’s amazing foresight and benevolence.
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