CUPE OSBCU president says strike date ‘not interfering’ with bargaining

CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions president Laura Walton pushed back Wednesday on Education Minister Stephen Lecce’s call for an end to a proposed one-day strike this Friday, saying that the strike date was “not interfering” with the bargaining process. She said what was interfering was the government’s legislation to impose a contract on 55,000 education workers and Lecce’s “complete refusal to negotiate.”