BREAKING: Ontario tables legislation to block education workers from striking.
that aims to block a planned strike by school support staff."Keeping Students in Class Act."
It will also effectively impose a new four-year collective bargaining agreement on the workers represented by the union.“Today the Ford government introduced legislation to force the lowest paid education workers further into poverty,” Laura Walton, who is the president of CUPE's Ontario School Board Council of Unions, said during a press conference at Queen’s Park immediately after the legislation was tabled.
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