Ontario CUPE education workers start voting on whether to strike
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The Canadian Union of Public Employees has called Ontario's initial contract offer, which it made public, insulting.
Ontario education workers including librarians, custodians and administrative staff are set to start voting today on whether to strike – and their union is recommending they vote yes.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees has called Ontario’s initial contract offer, which it made public, insulting.
The government has offered raises of two per cent a year for workers making less than $40,000 and 1.25 per cent for all other workers, while CUPE is looking for annual increases of 11.7 per cent.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce has criticized CUPE for planning strike votes since before the first offer was even tabled.
The province’s five major education unions are all in the midst of bargaining new contracts with the government.
CUPE’s 55,000 education worker members are set to vote between today and Oct. 2 on whether to strike.
Laura Walton, the president of CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions, says the lack of progress over the last two days of bargaining “firmed up” why the strike vote is necessary.
“Starting (today), 55,000 front-line education workers will have a chance to give their bargaining committee a strike mandate to make the Ford government and school board trustees take us seriously,” she said.
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