CUPE says it is ending its mass walkouts after Ford offered to rescind the controversial education legislation.
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Instead of offering an olive branch, you are giving altimeter. We are all human beings. Please remember that.
His massive olive branch is more like giving them a rope to climb a mountain, but that rope is not attached to anything.
Way to go hats off too CANADIAN WORKERS
Oh yes, go workers keep abusing children to get what you want. Self centered morons.
It’s the look of a dog with its tail between its legs…both of them
Proud of you CUPE!!💜
Proud? They folded and will now likely never reach a deal
Go brandon CUPE!
PROUD FOR WHAT ? proud that they abandoned EA’s wage concerns for the last 2 plus decades when EA’s have been pleading with CUPE to actually represent them and then get told “now is not the time” EA’s low wages ARE DIRECTLY the fault of CUPE.
@Matthew Matthewq not true this is something they had to do they can’t live on this
@plantbasedstrong They didn’t fold they held a strike and it won. If the bargaining falls through they are now able to strike again.
Time we all start standing up to our ridiculous governments until they realize WE hold the power
@Julia C Calm down Julia Gulia.
_Time we all start standing up to our ridiculous governments until they realize WE hold the power_
And where were you when governments were trampling rights in the name of COVID “safety”? You’re just figuring out government overreach now? Awfully damned convenient.
That totally worked in the truckers favor…
Sudds
No, what you did is cost your neighbors more money when they don’t have enough to feed the family. In fact my kids go to a Christian school that gets nothing from the government so I shouldn’t have to pay anything.
“Stop protesting and i’ll stop making it illegal for you to protest.” <-- best line I have heard on this.
Its actually completely legal
@Terminally Online originally the strike was to actually to strike and cripple the schools. So think about it. Ford has temporarily ended the strike and hasn’t really committed to anything yet. Call him what you want. But that was an EXCELLENT hand of poker just played by the ford government. What happens next is really up to the unions.
@Terminally Online
The strike was to get 11%.
The bill was to get the kids in school
@Stewart D The strike was in reaction to the bill.
@Terminally Online
The strike is what you do.
Always.
So they ended the strike to avoid the bill, but did they get what they wanted from the actual strike? If not seems like a big loss for Unions.
They’re going back into negotiations now.
Big Loss What ?
@Tony Hunter The government can still make strikes illegal anytime negotiations fail and a strike happens, isn’t that a bigger issue than the demands that proceeded the actual strike? Even if they get what they want now, the government is still capable of making future strikes illegal through the same methods..
@Grant N gov was always able to, just never was slimy enough to do so. The point is that we, the public, must give any politician who tries to do such a thing a thorough “spanking” so they backtrack, and work to get rid of notwithstanding, or have it limited in what it can be used to do.
@Gillian Tohver Did you sleep through the last two years? Did you miss governments trampling rights in the name of COVID “safety”? You’re just figuring out government overreach now?
Talk about being late to the party.
Yeah, lets go back but with no lower than our current increase!!! go unions
What other right is he willing to stomp on. Ford needs to step down.
LOL did you sleep through the last two years? Did you miss how governments at every level trampled people’s rights in the name of COVID “safety”? Now you’re concerned about rights being stomped on?
You sound like just as much of a hypocrite as is CUPE itself.
He ended the right to strike and then says he will repeal that as long as the union doesn’t strike ? How do you negotiate when you are stripped of your one and only bargaining chip ? Answer , you can’t . Way to go CUPE .
How do you negotiate when CUPE can shutdown the province?
Sounds balanced to me.
What other union can shutdown a corporation?
None. But they still negotiate.
@Xion D
The average after 15 years is 95,000
Big difference isn’t it.
Don’t forget your 2.5 million dollar pension per person bra
all of a sudden you’re concerned about the charter of rights? LOL
@IDHP
Exactly
@Xion D That’s not the standard for most teachers, and y’all need to stop acting like you live in poverty. It’s a joke.
I’m glad they stood up for their rights , got them back, and aren’t being saddled with a contract.
The Government wasted a lot of effort painting themselves into a corner / going in a circle.
Now that they are back to square one, the real work can continue.
typical for government, sadly.
That’s not how it works Doug! An ultimatum only work one way and your way is wrong Doug!
His massive olive branch is more like giving them a rope to climb a mountain, but that rope is not attached to anything.
While you are at it Doug, enough of your MZO orders going against local council decisions. And as an elected official, paid by taxpayers, we want your testimony on Ontario’s failures in Ottawa protest issues. What are you hiding from the electorate.
How embarrassing for the Conservatives.
Big win for the rights of citizens in this country! We’ve shown that the notwithstanding clause is not to be used lightly, and that the government cannot strip rights whenever its convenient.
That’s some dry satire right there.
Is that really true if exercising one’s rights is preemptively prohibited from making any difference, as in this case?
Viva to all workers, Viva Ontario!
ONTARIO REMEMBER HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO VOTE WE COULD OF AVOIDED THIS ANDREA HORWATH HAD MINIMUM WAGE 20.00 PER HOUR HOWEVER THE POLLS WERE SHORT VOTER’S AND WE ALMOST LOST OUR RIGHT’S TO BARGAIN LIVING WAGES THANKS CUPIE GROCERY STORES RECORD PROFITS PAYING MINIMUM WAGE NEED UNIONS SUPPORT FOR LIVING WAGES
NDP have no idea what they are talking about!!
Why do I get the feeling this isn’t over yet? What Doug Ford thinks is a fair deal and what CUPE thinks is a fair deal are probably two completely different things. At least the kids will be going back to school for the time being anyways.
But then how will CUPE launder the money out of the strike fund !?