TORONTO — An Ontario judge has found that the provincial government “substantially interfered” with teachers’ right to collective bargaining.
The governing Liberals imposed contracts on teachers in 2012 that froze some of their wages and limited their ability to strike.
Several unions took the government to court, arguing that Bill 115 violated their constitutional rights.
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Sam Hammond, the president of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, says the decision “is a total vindication” of the union’s “pursuit of democratic rights.”
Paul Elliott, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, says he is pleased the court “re-confirmed the importance of free, fair and meaningful collective bargaining.”
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