UPDATED: Ontario Files Labour Board Application to End Education Workers’ Strike
The Ontario government has filed an application with the province’s labour board to stop job action from thousands of education workers who walked off the job on Nov. 4.
In a tweet on Nov. 4 afternoon, Education Minister Stephen Lecce said the government is “using every tool available” to “end this illegal strike and get kids back to class.”
“Immediately following proclamation of the Keeping Students in Class Act, we filed a submission to the Ontario Labour Relations Board in response to CUPE’s [Canadian Union of Public Employees’] illegal strike action,” Lecce said.
“Nothing matters more right now than getting all students in the classroom and we will use every tool available to us to do so.”…