The Communist Party (Ontario) has called on the government to resign following Education Minister Laurel Broten’s action this week. The Education Minister has unilaterally and illegally suspended free collective bargaining between elected Public School Boards and teachers and educational workers’ unions across the province. She has imposed wages and conditions of work modeled on the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA) deal – a deal that is currently being appealed in the courts by OECTA locals whose members were not allowed to vote on the deals agreed to by OECTA officials.
CPC (Ontario) leader Elizabeth Rowley said today:
“With Parliament suspended by the Premier, the Minister and government have no right to take such sweeping, arbitrary and anti-democratic action affecting fundamental rights and freedoms of workers in this province, affecting the rights of public school supporters and elected School Boards to local autonomy and democracy, and severely and negatively impacting over one million public school students, their parents and families. Read more
