WATCH LIVE: CUPE to speak about negotiations as Lecce urges union to 'take the threat off the table'
The government has said it would return to the table if the mediator asks, and had wanted to hear if the Canadian Union of Public Employees' new offer was "reasonable." But Stephen Lecce said Wednesday any new proposal must include cancelling a strike planned for Friday."We’ve been very clear. We stand ready to negotiate with any willing partner, but they’ve got to take the strike off the table on Friday. We will not accept a strike this Friday or any day.
The Ontario government has introduced a bill – and is hoping to pass it this week – to impose a contract on the education workers and ban them from striking upon threat of steep fines. CUPE has said that framing is not accurate because the raises actually depend on hourly wages and pay scales, so the majority of workers who earn less than $43,000 in a year wouldn't get 2.5 per cent.
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