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.
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