Tag: CUPE

Labour Board Hearing Continues Today After 16 Hours of Heated Debate

After more than 16 hours of arguments before the labour board on Nov. 5, the hearing continued the following day with both sides making their case about the ongoing strike of 55,000 Ontario education workers who walked off the job Nov. 4, closing multiple schools across the province for in-person learning. Arguments before board chair…


Ontario Labour Board Hearing Continues to Decide Fate of Union’s Strike

Ontario’s labour relations board is set to hear another day of testimony on the government’s application to stop job action from thousands of education workers who walked off the job on Nov. 4. The board began hearing arguments on Nov. 3 after Education Minister Stephen Lecce filed an application following the proclamation of the Keeping…


Ontario Labour Relations Board Hearing Continues in Effort to Decide Fate of Education Workers’ Strike

Ontario’s labour relations board is set to hear another day of testimony on the government’s application to stop job action from thousands of education workers who walked off the job on Nov. 4. The board began hearing arguments on Nov. 3 after Education Minister Stephen Lecce filed an application following the proclamation of the Keeping…


Rex Murphy: The Liberals’ Stance on Ford’s Use of Notwithstanding Clause Oozes With Hypocrisy

Commentary Ontario is a peculiar place. There have been two full years of school closures—of dubious necessity—and now that the COVID regime has finally been lifted, just as children are getting settled back into regular class time, what happens? Why, there is a strike of course. The great CUPE union has called a strike for…


Trudeau Wades Into Ontario School Strike Debate

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has weighed in on the issue of the Ontario government’s plan to use back-to-work legislation and the notwithstanding clause to stop a pending school strike. “Using the notwithstanding clause to suspend worker’s rights is wrong,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa on Nov. 1. “Suspensions of people’s rights is something you should only…