Striking Ontario education workers are set to picket at politicians' offices across the province today, with a major demonstration planned for the legislature.
The Canadian PressBarriers were erected outside of Queen's Park Thursday afternoon.That's where, a day earlier, the Progressive Conservative government enacted a law imposing contracts on 55,000 education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees and banned them from striking.But CUPE says the law is an attack on all workers' bargaining rights and is staging a strike anyway, warning that it will likely last longer than one day.
The law sets out fines for violating a prohibition on strikes for the life of the agreement of up to $4,000 per employee per day, while there are fines of up to $500,000 for the union.Education Minister Stephen Lecce has suggested the government would indeed pursue those penalties, while the union has said it would foot the bill for fines levied against workers, which could cost as much as $220 million per day.
CUPE plans to fight the fines, but at the end of the day, the union has said if it has to pay, it will pay. CUPE leaders have previously suggested that the union is looking for outside financial help from other labour groups.
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