It’s janitors and special ed teachers who were striking not regular teachers. They make way less than standard teachers and get far worse benefits. I don’t think they get pension do they?
Ya I just saw school and strike and went into a blind rage… Didn’t realize it was support workers, my bad. They likely are underpaid and undervalued and this is horseshit from the government.
The eligibility for participation in the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan is prescribed by legislation in the Teachers Pension Act. A requirement is to be “qualified as a teacher”.
Other school workers may be eligible to participate in other public sector pension plans. It seems like many of them are members of OMERS, the pension plan for municipal workers. This is probably because they are technically employees of cities through city school boards.
Fuck Ford
In its OLRB application, the government is seeking “an unlawful strike declaration” against the union, its president Laura Walton and Fred Hahn, head of CUPE Ontario, and an order “directing that any and all unlawful strike activity immediately cease.”
On Thursday, after discussions on a new contract broke off, the Progressive Conservative government of Premier Doug Ford passed fast-tracked legislation that imposes a contract on the union, whose members include education assistants, early childhood educators, custodians and other support staff.
About 30 CUPE members, including union leaders, protested loudly from the public galleries during the vote, before being escorted out.
Mr. Ford was absent.
Ontario used the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to strip the union of its right to strike in an attempt to avoid disrupting classrooms. However, many schools, including in Toronto, York and Peel, were closed Friday, and more than a million students were at home, as the union defied the government and walked out.
Ontario fast-tracked passage of Bill 28 earlier this week, which fines striking workers C$4,000 ($2,955; £2,260) a day – nearly a full month’s salary for the average employee. The law also fines the union C$500,000 a day. The union estimates the strike could cost nearly $C200m a day. Lecce has said the government would pursue collection of the fines.
Justin Trudeau tweeted that he spoke with Doug Ford on Thursday and expressed his frustration that the premier’s actions were “ wrong and inappropriate”. Ford responded that his government would pass the legislation to “keep classrooms open and ensure stability” for parents and students.
“An important piece of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is being shredded before our very eyes,” the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, warning that Bill 28 shatters the norm of governments restraint in invoking the clause and putting other rights – free speech, freedom of religion – at risk.
I always kinda thought the US might dissolve first and then maybe Canada would follow suit (and the EU somewhere in the mix), but who knows now. @clovis8 what the heck is going on up there? This is supposed to be Quebec’s shtick.
Alberta has always been Canada’s wannabe American province. They like their oilsands and low taxes and guns and First Amendment rights, etc. I think their prior generations of conservative politicians were more about doing a lot of anti-Ottawa FREEDOM rhetoric in public and then in the actual halls of power they would use their oil money to bully the Federal government into giving them what they want. But in the 21st century / social media age the power of the Almighty Algorithms have handed more power to the dumbest true believers.
Canada doesn’t have as much of a “Provinces’ Rights” movement analogous to the US States’ Rights movement. I think in Canada serious provincial separatist movements often stumble as soon as people stop and think about how great they really have it in Canada. There will always be a dumb ALBERTA FIRST base but a lot of Albertans will have a hard time pushing the button when it comes time to vote. If you had universal health care would you risk handing the power to a libertarian provincial government to privatize the system?
It’s nonsense red meat for the idiotic base. She has been constantly walking back the breadth of the law since she got elected. She knows it has zero chance of being constitutional. It’s maga theatre like Densantis sending those immigrants north.
Good thing is we are very likely to have the NDP back in power due to all this stupid crap. Nobody likes it but the tiny far right crowd.
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I doubt anything in this act stands up in court
Lol, “I made a crown and everything” got me.
I love that she is burning the conservatives down. The mood at my local NDP office is very high. Door knocking will be so much easier next time.
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Both Alberta and Manitoba having unelected Premiers who are morons is mega tilting.
It’s going to win the NDP power in both at least
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This is nonsense. We are a proud theocracy based on the tenets laid out by our greatest religious figure.
that’s the canadian 2A, correct?
I’m curious what this is actually about. Anyone know?
Tucker is extremely jealous of how much Ivanka wants to bang Trudeau.