A union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers who walked off the job Friday says they will end their job action and be back at work Tuesday.
The announcement from the Canadian Union of Public Employees comes after Premier Doug Ford said he will repeal legislation that imposed a contract on the workers and used the notwithstanding clause.
The premier had said he would only repeal the law if the CUPE employees stopped their walkout, which began Friday and shut hundreds of schools.
Laura Walton, president of CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions, says she hopes the union’s gesture of “good faith” in ending its walkout is met with similar good faith by the government at the bargaining table.
She says workers now have their bargaining rights back.
CUPE members walked off the job despite the law banning them from doing so, and the government had taken them to the Ontario Labour Relations Board on the legality of the job action – a board ruling is pending.
More details & reaction to come.
(The Canadian Press)
