Toronto — Voting to ratify a preliminary agreement with the province that avoided a strike will take place from Thursday until December 5 among education employees throughout Ontario.
The results of the ballot will be made public on December 6, according to the 55,000 education workers that the Canadian Union of Public Employees represents.
The parties might reconvene at the table and CUPE could issue another strike notice if the settlement is rejected by the union’s members.
The four-year agreement, which includes an annual rise of $1 per hour, or roughly 3.59 percent, was described by CUPE as being identical to the province’s offer made last week before the union filed a five-day strike notice.
After the government approved laws requiring them to sign a four-year contract and taking away their right to strike, the employees went on a two-day work stoppage two weeks prior, closing hundreds of schools.
The province defended against a legal challenge by using the notwithstanding clause in its law, which sparked considerable criticism from unions across the nation and led to the Act’s final repeal.