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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.
A provincewide strike by education support workers is underway, resulting in the closure of most schools across the Greater Toronto Area on Friday.
Ontario's education workers have officially walked off the job despite legislation passed at Queen's Park that made a strike illegal.