CUPE officials say none of their members will be at work on Friday and will hold a province-wide protest regardless of Ontario’s proposed anti-strike legislation.

At a news conference, the union said education workers will withdraw their labour in protest of the move by the province, which they called a “monstrous overreach.”

The union representing Ontario education workers who will soon be in a strike position held a news conference about the situation on Monday, hours after the provincial government announced it plans to bring in legislation to block the potential job action. 

You can watch that 1:15 p.m. ET news conference in