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Union for SkyTrain workers reaches tentative five-year deal with BC Rapid Transit
A SkyTrain is pictured in Burnaby, B.C., Tuesday, April 14, 2020. The union for more than 1,000 SkyTrain employees says it has reached a tentative five-year deal with the BC Rapid Transit Co.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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CUPE workers begin full-scale strike, halting bus service across B.C.’s Fraser Valley
Seats which are closed to promote physical distancing are pictured on a public transit bus in North Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Bus service across most of B.C.'s Fraser Valley, from Abbotsford to Hope, has been halted by a strike. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Union calling on Ontario to hire support staff to address school violence
A union representing education workers in Ontario is calling on the government to hire more support staff to help students and address a recent rise in violence in and around schools. Laura Walton, the president of CUPE's Ontario School Board Council of Unions says trained and available mental health workers and teacher assistants should be available on site in every school to support to students who are struggling. Walton speaks to the media in Toronto on November 16, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Ontario’s CUPE education workers vote to ratify four-year contract
Laura Walton, the president of CUPE's Ontario School Board Council of Unions, speaks to the media in Toronto, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. The union representing roughly 55,000 Ontario education workers will announce today the results of a ratification vote on a tentative deal it struck with the province. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Ontario education workers reach tentative deal with province, averting strike
CUPE members picket at Queen’s Park in Toronto when education support workers across Ontario walked off the job on Friday. Many schools in Ontario are closed as union members including education assistants, librarians and custodians, took the job action after the Ford government imposed a contract on 55,000 members. November 4, 2022 (Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail)
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Ontario, CUPE workers continue contract talks with province as strike deadline nears
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce attends Question Period at the Queen's Park Legislature, in Toronto, on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Bargaining continues between Ontario education workers and province as strike deadline looms
CUPE members and supporters join a demonstration near Member of Provincial Parliament of Ontario Lisa MacLeod’s office in Ottawa, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. Intense bargaining is set to take place today between the province and education workers ahead of a possible strike.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Ontario parents worried about another disruption to learning as possible strike looms
CUPE education workers walk a picket line in Kingston, Ont., Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. Parents in Ontario are preparing for a weekend of uncertainty as a possible strike by education workers looms. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
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Ontario parents brace for another possible education workers’ strike next week
Laura Walton, the president of CUPE's Ontario School Board Council of Unions, speaks to the media in Toronto on Wednesday, November 16, 2022, as the union gives notice of a strike action in their ongoing dispute with the Ontario government. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Evening Update: Escalation fears ease after NATO, Warsaw say missile that hit Poland was Ukrainian stray
This handout photo taken and released on November 16, 2022 by the Polish police shows forensic experts investigating the site where a missile hit the southeastern Polish village of Przewodow, some six kilometres (four miles) from the Ukrainian border. - Two men were killed when the missile of unknown origin on November 15, 2022 hit the Polish village of Przewodow near the border with Ukraine, which has come under heavy Russian bombardment. (Photo by HANDOUT / POLISH POLICE / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / POLISH POLICE" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - ALTERNATIVE CROP (Photo by HANDOUT/POLISH POLICE/AFP via Getty Images)
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CUPE’s Ontario education workers announce potential strike Monday after talks with province reach impasse
Laura Walton (centre), the president of CUPE's Ontario School Board Council of Unions, is flanked by national president Mark Hancock (left) and Ontario president Fred Hahn, as she speaks to the media in Toronto on Wednesday, November 16, 2022. The Canadian Union of Public Employees, representing 55,000 Ontario education workers, has filed a five-day strike notice, saying bargaining talks with the province have broken down once more.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Ontario officially repeals bill aimed at banning education workers from striking
CUPE members picket at Queen’s Park in Toronto when education support workers across Ontario walked off the job on Friday. Many schools in Ontario are closed as union members including education assistants, librarians and custodians, took the job action after the Ford government imposed a contract on 55,000 members. November 4, 2022 (Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail)
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Unions planned nationwide protests to counter Ford’s use of notwithstanding clause
CUPE Ontario members and supporters wave demonstrate outside of the Queen's Park Legislative Building in Toronto, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
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Ontario government withdraws labour board case seeking to declare CUPE education workers’ walkout illegal
CUPE members picket at Queen’s Park in Toronto when education support workers across Ontario walked off the job on Friday. Schools in Ontario are closed as bargaining between the union and the provincial government has broken down. CUPE Ontario represents 55,000 members including education assistants, librarians and custodians. November 4, 2022 (Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail)
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Ontario brings CUPE education workers ‘improved offer,’ Premier Doug Ford says
CUPE-OSBCU president Laura Walton hugs a supporter following a press conference in Toronto on Monday Nov. 7, 2022. Ontario schools are reopen again for in-person learning today after many were shut since Friday due to a walkout by education workers. The Canadian Union of Public Employees says its 55,000 education workers will be back on the job today after Premier Doug Ford agreed to rescind a law that imposed contracts on them. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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GO Transit bus routes cancelled after drivers go on strike
A bus driver disembarks a GO Transit bus at the new Union Station Bus Terminal in Toronto on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Evan Buhler
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Doug Ford’s use of the notwithstanding clause had the unintended effect of bringing Canada’s largest unions together
CUPE members picket at Queen’s Park in Toronto when education support workers across Ontario walked off the job on Friday. Many schools in Ontario are closed as union members including education assistants, librarians and custodians, took the job action after the Ford government imposed a contract on 55,000 members. November 4, 2022 (Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail)
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Don’t blame Doug Ford for using the notwithstanding clause – it was the only logical solution
Patrick Groom
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CUPE to end education protests in Ontario after Doug Ford says he will repeal legislation banning strike
CUPE members and supporters join a demonstration in the east-end of Ottawa, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Ontario government, education union testify at labour board as strike action persists
CUPE members picket at Queen’s Park in Toronto when education support workers across Ontario walked off the job on Friday. Many schools in Ontario are closed as union members including education assistants, librarians and custodians, took the job action after the Ford government imposed a contract on 55,000 members. November 4, 2022 (Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail)
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CUPE’s fight is as much about gender equity as it is about labour rights
Leah Sarson
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How long can CUPE afford the education worker walkout?
CUPE Ontario members and supporters wave demonstrate outside of the Queen's Park Legislative Building in Toronto, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
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Evening Update: Thousands of Ontario education workers walk off the job
CUPE members picket at Queen’s Park in Toronto when education support workers across Ontario walked off the job on Friday. Schools in Ontario are closed as bargaining between the union and the provincial government has broken down. CUPE Ontario represents 55,000 members including education assistants, librarians and custodians.
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Education workers: ‘We neglect ourselves… and that’s gone for far too long’
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Ontario labour board considers government application to stop education workers strike
CUPE members picket at Queen’s Park in Toronto when education support workers across Ontario walked off the job on Friday. Many schools in Ontario are closed as union members including education assistants, librarians and custodians, took the job action after the Ford government imposed a contract on 55,000 members. November 4, 2022 (Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail)
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Ontario school boards tell parents to keep children home Friday as CUPE workers ready to strike
Covid safety measures such as signs on the floor promoting distanced traffic flow, are implemented at Willows Walk Public School, in Whitby, Ont., on Friday, Jan., 14, 2022. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
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CUPE’s initial wage ask ambitious but expected when inflation is considered, labour relations experts say
Hundreds of Members of CUPE New Brunswick and supporters protested in front of the New Brunswick legislature in Fredericton, N.B., on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs and union leaders representing 22-thousand striking public servants met for almost eight hours Thursday, but there's no indication what, if any, progress was made. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephen MacGillivray
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Ontario files labour board application to stop job action as education workers begin strike
CUPE members and supporters join a demonstration outside the office of Parm Gill, Member of Provincial Parliament for the riding of Milton, in Milton, Ont., on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nick Iwanyshyn
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Ontario CUPE workers vow to defy ban, go on strike if no deal struck
A grade two classroom is shown at Hunter's Glen Junior Public School which is part of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. A union representing 55,000 education workers set to strike says it hopes to hear back today from the government on a counter-offer made late Tuesday night. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Using the notwithstanding clause to negotiate a union contract? That’s like cracking eggs with a jackhammer
The Editorial Board
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Construction union that once endorsed Ford government now wants it to revoke back-to-work bill
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits The Laborers' International Union of North America (LiUNA) in Grimsby Ontario, Canada, October 13, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
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Evening Update: Convoy protest organizer Chris Barber tells inquiry that other leader’s violent comments were not a concern
Freedom Convoy organizer Chris Barber responds to a question as he appears as a witness at the Public Order Emergency Commission, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld