Legal experts call Ontario’s response to education workers’ strike ‘unprecedented’ and ‘politically fraught’
and its members in the education sector would not be able to challenge back-to-work legislation for the next five years.
And there have been significant wins on the wage front. The BC General Employees’ Union, for example, negotiated a historic double-digit wage hike of 14 per cent over three years for 33,000 public-sector workers who went on strike in September, rejecting an 11-per-cent offer from the province. “This is an extremely aggressive assertion from the Ford government to prevent a strike, especially in a situation involving education workers, who are usually not deemed essential unlike health care workers,” said Eric Tucker, professor emeritus at York University, specializing in labour law.
The problem for unions is that even when they mount a legal challenge to back-to-work legislation, it sometimes takes years for the challenge to make its way through the courts. “Typically, back-to-work legislation takes force immediately and that’s the end of it,” said Prof. Tucker. “There are of course situations where unions have defied these laws and not gone back to work, but they are pretty uncommon partly because of the financial penalties for not obeying,” he added.
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