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The Ontario legislature has passed back-to-work legislation to impose a four-year contract on education workers and make a ...

Ontario has passed legislation imposing a four-year contract on education support workers and making it illegal to strike. This comes as the union confirms it will fight any fines given to its members who choose to strike on Friday.

Education support staff across Ontario are set to strike on Friday as mediation between a workers union and the provincial government ended withou...

Ontarios education workers are set to strike on Friday. Here is where the picket lines will be across the province.

Striking members include IT, mental health, early childhood workers

Despite most school boards in Ontario planning to suspend in-person learning for the day due to a planned walkout by the province’s 55,000 education workers, students at Conseil Scolaire Viamonde are being advised to report to class Friday.

To howls from opposition critics and growing outcry from those sympathetic to the education workers’ plight, the Ford government got its anti-strike law on the books ahead of a (now illegal) picket by tens of thousands of CUPE staff that will close many of the province’s schools starting Friday.

Schools across Simcoe County, Muskoka, and York Region are closed Friday as Ontario education workers walk off the job.

Some students are out of class today and parents are awaiting updates as education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees gathered at picket lines early Friday morning in defiance of provincial legislation.

A provincewide strike by education support workers is underway, resulting in the closure of most schools across the Greater Toronto Area on Friday.