Ontario education workers are set to picket at politicians’ offices across the province today, with a major demonstration planned at the legislature.
That is where the Progressive Conservative government passed a law imposing a contract on 55-thousand education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees that bans them from striking.
On a list of sites, MPP Bobbi Ann Brady is not on the list – likely because at Legislature she made her opinion on the matter very clear.
Continuing, Brady questioned the governments “concern” for the students.
Finally, she asked fellow MPP’s to do what’s best for everyone.
CUPE says the law, which uses the notwithstanding clause to protect against constitutional challenges, is an attack on all workers’ bargaining rights.
The union says it is staging a strike anyway, warning it will likely last longer than one day.