BREAKING The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) says it has reached a tentative deal to avert a strike with the Ontario government after labour negotiations over the weekend.
Both parties agreed to a $1-per-hour raise each year, or about 3.59% annually, says CUPEThe union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers has not yet released details about the deal, but said earlier that both sides had already reached an agreement on wages even as the union kept pushing for certain staffing levels to be guaranteed.with the Ontario government after labour negotiations over the weekend.
"Today we've reached a tentative agreement with the provincial government. Workers will be in schools tomorrow and there will not be a strike," said Laura Walton, the president of CUPE's Ontario School Board Council of Unions. "For that, to parents and families, all I can say is that I'm disappointed and so is the entire bargaining committee," she said.But the union was still looking for $100 million in guarantees of higher staffing levels for educational assistants, librarians, custodians and secretaries, as well as an early childhood educator in every kindergarten classroom and not just classes that have more than 16 students.
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