CUPE strike

A handful of school boards in Ontario have confirmed they would close their schools if the province's education workers walk off the job this Friday.

The Halton District School Board (HDSB) revealed it will provide a mix of in-person and online learning to its Kindergarten to Grade 8 students. The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCSDB) is the first in the city to share what could happen to its 195 schools if a strike takes place. The two school boards alone oversee over 100 schools.

The Ontario government and education workers are set to return to the bargaining table Sunday afternoon as pressure ratchets up for both sides to reach a ...

In 2019, CUPE and the government reached a last-minute deal the day before workers had been set to go on a full strike. The Halton District School Board (HDSB) said Sunday its elementary school students would alternate days between in-person and remote learning in the event of a full strike, while high schools would remain open five days a week, including Grade 7 to 12 schools in Aldershot, Burlington Central and Acton District. The TCDSB said this is "to ensure the health, welfare, and safety of our students and staff." The Toronto Catholic District School Board, the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board and the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic School Board have all said that they will not be able to operate safely if CUPE members walk off the job. CUPE is looking for annual salary increases of 11.7 per cent and the government in response has offered raises of two per cent a year for workers making less than $40,000 and 1.25 per cent for all others. The Ontario government and education workers are set to return to the bargaining table Sunday afternoon as pressure ratchets up for both sides to reach a deal that would prevent a provincewide strike by the end of the week.

Toronto's Catholic school board is the first in the city to announce it will close the doors of its schools starting this Friday, if the province's 55000 ...

[Atlantic](https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/) [Missing American boy found safe in Moncton: N.B. Canadians are being urged by the country's federal, provincial and territorial governments to get one of two approved bivalent COVID-19 vaccines as soon as they're eligible. The baby was in a vehicle with his mother and four-year-old sister when it plunged into the Mille Iles river shortly before 5 p.m. Police continued their search Sunday for a one-month-old baby missing in the waters off the northern shore of Laval, Que. We have asked CUPE to meet us back at the table today and hope that they budge from their demand for a nearly 50 per cent increase in compensation, which they have so far refused to do,” he said in a statement provided to CTV News Toronto. If CUPE moves ahead with strike action and disruption, we will act to keep students in class so they can continue to catch up.” That go-ahead, which allowed the workers to legally walk off the job in 17 days (Nov. No one wants to strike, least of all the lowest-paid education workers who can barely pay our bills.” The union then asked the Ontario Ministry of Labour to grant what is known as a no-board report, which means that a board of conciliation will not be appointed. "We understand that this news is difficult and may be the source of stress among families and their children, particularly after the circumstances during the pandemic. All excursions will also be called off "for the duration of the strike," the board noted. “We are continuing to assess the impact a full withdrawal of services will have on our schools.

The Ottawa Catholic School Board says if CUPE members go on strike, all in-person students will shift to remote learning on Friday, Nov. 4.

You can hear Dylan Riches’ voice tense up as he recalls what he describes as the worst 10 days of his life. [Atlantic](https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/) [Missing American boy found safe in Moncton: N.B. 1 hr ago Canadians are being urged by the country's federal, provincial and territorial governments to get one of two approved bivalent COVID-19 vaccines as soon as they're eligible. The baby was in a vehicle with his mother and four-year-old sister when it plunged into the Mille Iles river shortly before 5 p.m. 3 hr ago In a statement on Oct. "If a strike occurs, all OCSB in-person students will move to remote learning on Friday, November 4. "We have asked CUPE to meet us back at the table today and hope that they budge from their demand for a nearly 50 per cent increase in compensation, which they have so far refused to do. Still, we need a significant wage increase and we deserve it. The union says the government offered $0.33 to $0.53 an hour increase. In a statement on Twitter, the union said it would begin a "full withdrawal of service on Nov.

The Ford government is planning to introduce legislation on Monday which will prevent education workers from going on strike.

The union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers has issued a five-day strike notice – meaning they could walk off the job as early as Friday unless ...

Any strike that would see assistants walk off the job would mean the classroom wouldn’t realistically be able to run, according to Ms. Her son, Damon, is in the sixth grade at a school in Peel Region and he learns in an autism-contained classroom that runs with one teacher and four educational assistants for eight students. Meanwhile, the Ottawa Catholic School Board told parents that it would move to remote learning if a strike were to take place. The boards said they would not be able to ensure a safe environment for students and teachers without educational workers. “No one wants to strike, least of all the lowest-paid education workers who can barely pay our bills,” Laura Walton, president of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions, said in a statement Sunday. “If CUPE moves ahead with strike action and disruption, we will act to keep students in class so they can continue to catch up.”

CUPE, the union representing 55,000 education workers, has served the Ontario Ministry of Education with a notice it plans to strike by Friday. Ahmar Khan ...

The legislation, set to be tabled at 1 p.m. Ontario, on its own, devised a process. It set the parameters which would allow it to meet fiscal restraints it determined and then set a program which limited the ability of the others parties to take part in a meaningful way,” Judge Thomas Lederer wrote in a 2016 judgement. [$103-million dollar](https://www.etfo.ca/etfo-action/bills/etfo-s-unfair-labour-practice-complaint-against-the-government-of-ontario/faq-bill-115-remedy) “remedy” to distribute to former and current members of the union. [Ford government](https://globalnews.ca/tag/ford-government) will introduce legislation on Monday to impose a four-year [contract](https://globalnews.ca/tag/contract) on thousands of [education](https://globalnews.ca/tag/education) support workers in order to avoid a strike — a move that will likely trigger a court challenge by the union. In a statement, Education Minister Stephen Lecce said the government presented a “generous” offer and was going to follow through on a promise to keep students in class.