Work-to-rule campaign began Sept. 30
The union that represents Ontario education workers gave the required five days’ notice for escalating their job action to a full-fledged walkout set to begin on Oct. 7.
“I’ll be frank: we had hoped work-to-rule would force the parties to get together and agree to a deal. But that hasn’t happened, and now we’re hearing stories that cause us great concern,” says Laura Walton, president of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario School Board Council of Unions, which negotiates centrally on behalf of the union’s school board employees.
CUPE asked the province and the Council of Trustees’ Associations (CTA) to bargain with the union around the clock beginning on Oct. 4, and work throughout the weekend in order to avoid the disruption that a full strike would bring to students, families and schools, says the union.
