Ontario passed Bill 115 and nixed labour negotiations making the right to strike illegal for Ontario teachers and education partners. Accepting a wage freeze was acceptable but having benefits which were hard fought for over many decades are now deemed unlawful. Sick days are cut in half and non-bankable. This then will ensure the teachers will take an extra 10+ days per school year because we cannot bank them. Gratuities are actually vacation pay that are never received and teachers are the only labour group other than doctors who do not receive vacation pay.
The current government is turning on the very people who put McGuinty in as Premiere of Ontario. The remaining public service sector is facing the same fate as teachers. Outlawing negotiated contracts is akin to turning the clock back to the age of the 'rober barons' of the 19th century. They were the former 1%.
The 99% must be very worried because as the unions are diminished, so goes the middle-class. As contracts with benefits are negated, so will the wages and benefits of the private sector. McGuinty is kow towing to corporate execs and Conservatives in government, both federally and provincially. It's time for us all to rise up and take back properly negotiated contracts.
Shut down Ontario's 99%! To all Ontario and Labour Unions in Canada we must have a day of action from coast to coast to hammer this issue home to everyone.
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Stop McGuinty-Stop attacks on Labour
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