Ontario schools will be open as usual today after a strike by Ontario’s 55,000 education workers was averted at the 11th hour.
with the provincial government and its members would not be walking off the job as planned.if education support staff went on strike.
“The workers will be in schools tomorrow and there will not be a strike,” Laura Walton, president of CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions, said late Sunday afternoon. “You gave the bargaining team a hefty assignment achieving real wage gains, improving working conditions, and enhancing the services our students need and our parents rely on. You put your energy into this,” she said.
The union previously said the government proposed a 3.59 per cent wage increase for workers, an increase from their previous offer, which included a 2.5 per cent annual raise for workers earning under $43,000 and a 1.5 per cent yearly wage increase for those who make more. “I think it's terrible that we live in a world that doesn't see the need to provide services to kids that they need, but we will always put workers first we will always put our students first. And that's why there will not be a strike tomorrow. That's why we're taking it to the workers. And that's why we hope to have it completed the ratification vote completed by Sunday, a week today.
“We are grateful to all parties for working with the government. … Kids deserve to be in class and I’m proud to confirm they will be tomorrow.”
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