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Ontario Premier Doug Ford was staring down a gathering storm of indefinite school closures, a new law nobody obeyed and warnings of widespread, economy-disrupting work stoppages when he decided last weekend that there was only one way out.
The Ontario government has “blinked” and called off legislation that limits the ability of 55,000 education workers in the province to legally strike.
TORONTO - Labour experts say a broad outpouring of support from unions for Ontario education workers in their fight with Premier Doug Ford was unprecedented and could galvanize workers at the bargaining table in the weeks and months to come.
CUPE ordered the 55,000 Ontario education support workers to return to work because their strike has roiled Doug Ford’s hard-right government and threatens to trigger a province-wide general strike.
Ontario schools reopened for in-person learning today after Premier Doug Ford said he “extended an olive branch” to ...