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RSS FeedsDeal with CUPE can be reached, strike avoided, education minister says, urging union to be `reasonable´
(The Star Canada)

 
 

4 october 2019 23:55:05

 
Deal with CUPE can be reached, strike avoided, education minister says, urging union to be `reasonable´
(The Star Canada)
 


Education Minister Stephen Lecce says there is a “credible pathway” to a deal with the union representing 55,000 school support staff — but is urging CUPE to be “reasonable” at the bargaining table.“We aren’t all horribly far apart on a lot of issues — in fact, on some of the major issues we’ve been able to seek alignment,” Lecce told the Star in a phone interview Friday morning, just hours before bargaining talks were set to resume with the Canadian Union of Public Employees in an attempt to avoid a strike Monday morning that will shut down hundreds of schools across the province. There are a “a few issues that will be negotiated at the table over the weekend, but I do believe for families and for students themselves that there’s a pathway to resolve this, and it really rests with, I think largely, the union being reasonable.”Lecce said “the government has demonstrated reasonability, flexibility” that puts students first, he said. He said he is “cautiously optimistic” of getting a deal, “however I always emphasize that it does take two to tango.”Laura Walton, president of CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions, said in an interview that she “(finds) the word reasonable interesting.”“I don’t find it reasonable that we have students without (educational assistants’) supports or find it reasonable that we have full-day kindergarten classes with 30 kids in a classroom or find it reasonable that we have cleanliness standards going down” in schools. “... At the end of the day, being reasonable is something the government and the (school board associations) also have to consider.”Walton said she will be talking to her communications team to figure out a way for parents to get information about any potential strike as soon as possible — so they don’t have to wait around having until ea ...


 
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