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All Of Canada Is At Risk Over Ford Govt’s Latest Anti-Worker

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Tricks @ Fri Nov 04, 2022 8:00 am

Someone TL;DR me on this. I have no idea what's going on.

   



housewife @ Fri Nov 04, 2022 8:07 am

Education support workers contract negotiation not going well. Union talks about strikes. Government goes in all heavy handed and uses the not withstanding clause to make strikes illegal. Legal and constitutional implications. Children pay

   



Scape @ Fri Nov 04, 2022 1:22 pm

'We're just saying 'enough'': Hamilton education workers rally as CUPE strike begins

   



Scape @ Fri Nov 04, 2022 1:24 pm

Tricks Tricks:
Someone TL;DR me on this. I have no idea what's going on.


The video at start of thread is a good prep. Ford is using not withstanding to break unions.

   



Scape @ Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:56 pm

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17.77% of the Ontario electorate gave the disaster that is the Doug Ford government.

   



Tricks @ Fri Nov 04, 2022 4:12 pm

housewife housewife:
Education support workers contract negotiation not going well. Union talks about strikes. Government goes in all heavy handed and uses the not withstanding clause to make strikes illegal. Legal and constitutional implications. Children pay

Perfect thank you.

   



Thanos @ Fri Nov 04, 2022 4:12 pm

Shit happens when 55% of the eligible voters don't even bother to show up. And they're not showing up mostly because the Liberal & NDP haven't merely not provided any reasons to vote for them but they've actually managed to make a lot of moderates come out just to vote against them and against their fruitcake ideas. To be repeated on Tuesday night in the US when, despite the existential threat being poised to American democracy by Trump's hand-picked slate of complete fucking mentally ill asshole candidates, most of the center-left does their usual "meh" and just lets it slide. Have fun woking those disastrous results all the way to the bank, activists & allies.

   



Scape @ Sun Nov 06, 2022 9:44 pm

Multiple unions planning mass Ontario-wide walkout to protest Ford government: sources

$1:
A union of 50,000 education workers (not teachers) in Ontario, Canada were due to renegotiate their collective agreement. But the government refused to bargain in good faith, and invoked the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to force an agreement on the workers and make striking illegal.

Provinces can use the notwithstanding clause to suspend parts of the charter for certain provincial laws for a period of five years, but it’s rarely used because it’s a nuclear option.

Below are sections 2, 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which the Ontario government effectively suspended for this back-to-work law.

FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS

2 Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association.

LEGAL RIGHTS
Life, liberty and security of person

7 Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the **right not to be deprived thereof **except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.

EQUALITY RIGHTS
Equality before and under law and equal protection and benefit of law

15 (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.

Affirmative action programs

(2) Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.


This is just a shot across the bow, if Ford doesn't change course now we are going to see strikes in more provinces in a general strike.

   



Strutz @ Sun Nov 06, 2022 11:19 pm

Scape Scape:
Multiple unions planning mass Ontario-wide walkout to protest Ford government: sources

This is just a shot across the bow, if Ford doesn't change course now we are going to see strikes in more provinces in a general strike.

Wow. This is about to get very interesting.

   



xerxes @ Mon Nov 07, 2022 9:02 am

Good. People have to stand up to BS like this. If we don’t take action now, we’ll settle for nothing later.

   



Strutz @ Mon Nov 07, 2022 9:31 am

Union to respond after Ford offers to repeal strike bill if Ontario education workers end walkout

There is soon to be press conference by CUPE in response so this article will be updated.

   



xerxes @ Mon Nov 07, 2022 11:33 am

Ford is backing down and Bill 28 will be repealed. Picket lines to go down Tuesday.

   



Scape @ Mon Nov 07, 2022 2:06 pm

This could have been done last week without a strike. Well done Ford, you blew your foot off because half of your support was union, but better late than never.

   



JaredMilne @ Mon Nov 07, 2022 4:27 pm

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

The Ford brothers are two of the best retail politicians Canada's seen in at least 30 years, but they are/were a pair of incompetent boobs when it came to actually governing. First Ford acts like he's going to channel his inner Mitch Hepburn and Mike Harris and bust the unions, going so far as to use the nuclear option with the notwithstanding clause.

Now, he's forced into a humiliating climbdown and he's probably angered a lot of his hardcore right-wing pundit support, not to mention whatever's left of Ford Nation. This is no different than Rob Ford being such an embarrassment that the rest of Toronto City Council stripped away most of his mayoral powers.

And, like Scape says, he shot himself in the foot.

   



xerxes @ Mon Nov 07, 2022 4:29 pm

Hopefully for the people of Ontario, it doesn't heal by the next election and they remember what he tried to do.

   



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