{"id":126047,"date":"2022-11-18T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/rwddev\/?p=126047"},"modified":"2022-11-18T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T14:28:13","slug":"schools-to-close-if-cupe-education-workers-go-on-strike-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/schools-to-close-if-cupe-education-workers-go-on-strike-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools to close if CUPE education workers go on strike Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Parents and guardians of students at Trillium Lakelands District School Board as well as Near North District School Board are being advised to prepare for online learning and school closures if education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) go on strike this Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talks between the Province and CUPE broke down once again. In a statement on Wednesday, CUPE said they were able to reach a middle ground with the Province on wages, &#8220;despite that progress, the government refused to invest in the services that students need and parents expect, precipitating this\u00a0escalation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Education Minister Steven Lecce blamed CUPE for adding more to the table. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Province&#8217;s latest offer includes a flat annual increase of 3.59 per cent for all workers, which the union has accepted. Lecce said the agreement would cost $335 million over four years, and the province has not asked for any concessions in return. But CUPE is asking for more money for services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf this government was serious about their plan to catch up, they\u2019d listen to the workers who do the most to support learners and they\u2019d put an early childhood educator in every kindergarten class and provide more students with the direct support of an educational assistant,\u201d said Laura Walton, educational assistant and president of\u00a0CUPE&#8217;s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve heard from parents desperate for these improvements. We felt their support at our protests across the province. And we\u2019re not going to turn our backs on students, parents, and\u00a0families,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What education workers want:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>enough educational assistants so all students get the supports they need and so schools could stop sending kids home because there isn\u2019t an&nbsp;EA&nbsp;available;<\/li><li>an early childhood educator in every kindergarten classroom so every four- and five-year-old would get the play-based learning support that\u2019s especially necessary now after two years of pandemic&nbsp;isolation;<\/li><li>enough library workers to make sure school libraries are open and reading opportunities are available to kids all the&nbsp;time;<\/li><li>enough custodians to keep schools clean and enough maintenance workers and tradespeople to begin to tackle the $16 billion repair backlog;&nbsp;and<\/li><li>adequate staffing of secretaries in school offices and enough lunchroom supervisors to keep students&nbsp;safe.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The School Boards Collective Bargaining Act requires that workers employed by school boards give five days\u2019 notice before beginning a job action, which means a strike is possible starting on Monday, November 21 if the parties are unable to reach a deal. <\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and guardians of students at Trillium Lakelands District School Board as well as Near North District School Board are being advised to prepare for online learning and school closures [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":126054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3046,2610],"class_list":["post-126047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cupe-strike","tag-school-closures"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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