Ontario workers reach agreement with Province
2022.12.05 14:14
Ontario workers reach agreement with Province
Budrigannews.com – Union representatives announced on Monday that education workers in Ontario, the most populous province in Canada, have decided to accept a labor agreement with the provincial government.
The vote comes two days after Ontario’s government said it would rescind a law imposing a contract and using a legal clause to override workers’ right to strike, 55,000 education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which includes education assistants and library workers, called off a strike on Nov. 7.
Laura Walton, president of the CUPE Ontario School Board Council of Unions, stated to reporters that the provincial government “thought we’d roll over, we’d suck it up, and we’d accept less than we were worth.”
She stated that 73% of the union’s members supported the agreement, which was approved by more than 40,000 of them.The educators wanted more frontline staff in schools and better pay.
“A great outcome that keeps kids learning in class,” tweeted Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce.
“We are so happy that we were able to come to an agreement that has been overwhelmingly ratified by the members and that keeps kids in classrooms and preserves the learning experience,” the group said.
