Ontario presenting 'improved offer' to education workers as bargaining resumes: Ford
CBC
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government will present an "improved offer" when bargaining resumes Tuesday with a union representing 55,000 education workers, who are back on the job after a walkout that closed schools across the province.
The workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), ended their protest Monday just hours after Ford promised to repeal a bill that used the notwithstanding clause to impose a multi-year contract and banned the workers from striking.
Bill 28 was met with fierce resistance from CUPE and other labour unions.
Shortly before CUPE was set to hold a news conference with more than a dozen public and private-sector unions in a show of solidarity, Ford announced that he would revoke the law if CUPE cancelled its walkout.
The Ministry of Education said the law would be repealed when the legislature sits again next week.
CUPE says it is technically still in a legal strike position, but will now instead focus on a renewed bargaining effort and its workers are heading back to schools in a show of "good faith."
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