Ontario education workers file strike notice again | FULL

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 55,000 Ontario education workers, has filed a five-day strike notice, saying bargaining talks with the province have broken down once more.

CUPE said it reached a middle ground with the government on wages, but the notice of a potential province-wide strike comes after what it calls a refusal from the province to “invest in the services that students need and parents expect.”

"We absolutely want what's best for [the students]. So [the government] is going to call us greedy. And they're going to say we're on a warpath to strike. But parents like me, and so many of us up here, we know the truth," CUPE-OSBCU president Laura Walton said during a news conference.

This came after the two sides returned to the negotiating table and the Doug Ford government promised to repeal a controversial bill that prevented a strike and forced a contract on thousands of workers. Thousands of workers, including education assistants and custodians, walked off the job anyway and shut schools to in-person learning for two days.

On Monday, the Ford government officially repealed Bill 28 in the hopes of mending fences with the labour union after a national outcry over the legislation which invoked the "notwithstanding clause" to force a four-year contract while pre-emptively banning a strike by the union's 55,000 education workers.

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