55,000 Ontario Education Workers Strike Despite 'Draconian' New Anti-Labor Law

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55,000 Ontario Education Workers Strike Despite 'Draconian' New Anti-Labor Law
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'Doug Ford and his government are once again telling workers across the province that their rights don't matter,' said a Canadian labor leader after the right-wing Ontario administration banned education workers from striking and forced a contract on them.

—which imposes contracts on CUPE members and prohibits them from striking on pain of a $3,000 daily fine per employee and up to a $371,000 penalty for the union.to shield against constitutional challenges. The controversial legal mechanism has only been invoked twice in Ontario's history—both times under Ford.Bill 28 an"attack on one of the most basic rights available, that of collective bargaining.

CUPE national secretary-treasurer Candace Rennick said that"now is a moment for us to ask ourselves what kind of union we want to be, in the face of the worst piece of legislation we've ever seen leveled at the labor movement." The bill unilaterally imposes woefully low wage increases—well below inflation—on low-income employees who have previously been subjected to three years of 1% increases... inadequate protections against job cuts; no paid prep time for education workers who work directly with students; a cut to the sick leave/short-term disability plan; and many other imposed terms which penalize employees.

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