BREAKING: The Toronto District School Board says it will close all schools for in-person learning on Friday, the same day some 55,000 Ontario education workers are set to walk off the job in a province-wide protest.
Closures are in response to threat by education workers to walk off the job, TDSB saysPatty Coates, head of the Ontario Federation of Labour, speaking during a news conference at Queens Park on Monday. Coates stands in solidarity with CUPE members Laura Walton, left, and Fred Hahn, who announced provincewide job action in response to failed negotiations with the Ontario government.
As a result of this announcement, the board will have no option but to close all schools for in person learning for all students on Friday Nov. 4, the TDSB said in a statement Monday night. "Student supervision and safety are our top priorities and without the important services of these school-based employees, we cannot guarantee that our learning environments will remain safe and clean for all students," it addedAt a news conference earlier on Monday, CUPE said education workers will "withdraw their labour" to protest against the move by the province, which they called a "monstrous overreach.
CUPE has said they will explore every avenue to fight the bill, but the government said it intends to use the notwithstanding clause to keep the eventual law in force despite any constitutional challenges. The government had been offering raises of two per cent a year for workers making less than $40,000 and 1.25 per cent for all others. Lecce said the new, four-year deal would give 2.5 per cent annual raises to workers making less than $43,000 and 1.5 per cent raises for all others.
On Sunday, education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees gave the required five days' notice for job action, positioning its members — including educational assistants, custodians and early childhood educators, but not teachers — to go on full strike as early as Friday.
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