Ontario to pass bill imposing contract on education workers, strike would be ‘illegal’: minister

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce spoke at a last-minute press conference on Thursday after CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions said bargaining had ended without a deal and that the government had passed Bill 28 to impose a contract on education workers. He said a strike planned by the union for Friday would be considered “illegal” under the bill.

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