, that members would go on strike in five days if a deal wasn't reached. The government presented a new offer, but also said if CUPE didn't cancel strike plans, legislation would be tabled to impose contracts.
Yet the strike inched closer, the legislation kept progressing and unions across the country began talking about how to stop the bill.Ford rushed into a room across from his office at the legislature with Education Minister Stephen Lecce and Labour Minister Monte McNaughton. Staffers came and went in a flurry.
But Laura Walton, the president of CUPE's Ontario School Board Council of Unions, said she couldn't fully consider Thursday's last-ditch offer because it was never formally made. "They're now acting unlawfully, but we aren't in charge of enforcement," one government source said of the tenuous situation the province would still be in."So what do we have left to do?"
Unions across the country -- even trades and construction unions that had backed Ford in the spring election -- were taken aback by the legislation's inclusion of the notwithstanding clause, which they called an attack on Charter rights. A defaced picture of Ontario Premier Doug Ford is seen as CUPE Ontario members and supporters demonstrate outside of the Queen's Park Legislative Building in Toronto, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
'Whose rights are next?' Lol a couple years late on that one fellas Shoulda shown more solidarity with the trucker's if you want empathy now
Pierre Trudeau, -the male Prime Minister, -said law was essentially nothing more than a matter of obedience. Without obedience, you have no law.