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The anti-union, right-wing state government is attempting to crush strike action by poorly paid school support staff in Ontario, Canada. The workers, who are cleaners, school secretaries, librarians and teaching assistants, are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Inflation in Ontario is now around 7% and the union is demanding a wage increase of 11.7% (the equivalent of about £2.10 per hour). The state offered 2.5% for the poorest paid workers, and less for others; negotiations broke down last month.

Some 55,000 education workers in Canada's Ontario province walked off the job Friday, risking huge fines for defying a strike ban that was backed by the extraordinary use of special powers in the nation's constitution. After talks with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) collapsed this week, the government…

Ontario’s education workers walked off the job Friday despite legislation passed at Queen’s Park that made a strike illegal.

Hundreds gathered in downtown Toronto on Tuesday afternoon to protest against the Ford government's back-to-work legislation that would impose a contract on Ontario's 55,000 education workers and block them from striking.

Hundreds gathered in downtown Toronto on Tuesday to protest against the Ford government's back-to-work legislation that would impose a contract on Ontario's 55,000 education workers and block them from striking.