How much has Doug Ford sweetened his offer to CUPE? Insiders said the government is offering around 3.5 per cent for lower-income workers earning less than $43,000 a year and almost two per cent for workers making more.
has made “an improved offer” to CUPE school support staff that sources told the Star is higher than the government’s previous final contract proposal.
While both the premier’s office and the union insisted those numbers were not accurate — neither side wants to incur the wrath of the mediator as talks continue Wednesday — sources privy to the negotiations confirmed they are in the ballpark. “If I have to put some water in my wine, so be it … I want the kids in class, bottom line,” the premier told reporters at Queen’s Park.Ford, who declined to discuss the enriched offer to CUPE, held his second daily press conference in a row to reiterate thatThe premier’s comments came one day after he promised to repeal Bill 28 — which used the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to override the Charter rights — if the 55,000 strikers from CUPE would return to schools.
Ford said the repeal legislation will not be introduced until Monday when the house resumes after the Remembrance Day break, and should pass “right away” with support from opposition parties. The NDP, Liberals and Greens voted against Bill 28, warning it was heavy handed.
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