![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The scariest thing this Halloween
Oct. 31st, 2022 05:55 pmIs the Ford Regime abolishing labour rights in Ontario.
To be clear, CUPE—not teachers, they're support staff, making an average of 39K a year—have not actually gone on strike yet. The Ford Regime preemptively introduced back-to-work legislation to stop them from striking. This is illegal under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and Ford knows it's illegal, hence the use of the notwithstanding clause. For those of you who aren't Canadian, that's a "get out of being a democracy free" card for governments to use. Its very existence is a nuclear option, which is why previous, less fashy governments have hesitated to ever use it.
CUPE plans to strike anyway, bless their hearts. They can be fined and arrested, which, when you are regularly violently assaulted at work to the point where you have to wear Kevlar and you get paid peanuts, is kind of laughable.
CUPE workers, like the rest of us public servants (cops excluded of course), have had their wages capped at 1% since the last enforced contract.
The government had enough money to bribe parents with $200, no strings attached, for "tutoring" (a.k.a. Christmas presents). $250 if the kid's disabled. Meanwhile, Stephen Lecce, the Minister of Education who almost certainly had sexual intercourse with a goat, got a raise of 10.2%, bringing his salary to $165,000 a year for a few days of work and a lot of unmasked photo ops with Italian grandmas. He also gets a housing allowance.
They may have badly misjudged this one. I hope so. These are the most screwed people in education but the issue is bigger than that. If he can suspend democracy to take away the rights of one group of workers, we are all indentured servants. He already runs this province as an absolute dictatorship but this is a real gloves off moment. Pay attention, go to the protest on Tuesday night at the Ministry of Labour if you can.
To be clear, CUPE—not teachers, they're support staff, making an average of 39K a year—have not actually gone on strike yet. The Ford Regime preemptively introduced back-to-work legislation to stop them from striking. This is illegal under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and Ford knows it's illegal, hence the use of the notwithstanding clause. For those of you who aren't Canadian, that's a "get out of being a democracy free" card for governments to use. Its very existence is a nuclear option, which is why previous, less fashy governments have hesitated to ever use it.
CUPE plans to strike anyway, bless their hearts. They can be fined and arrested, which, when you are regularly violently assaulted at work to the point where you have to wear Kevlar and you get paid peanuts, is kind of laughable.
CUPE workers, like the rest of us public servants (cops excluded of course), have had their wages capped at 1% since the last enforced contract.
The government had enough money to bribe parents with $200, no strings attached, for "tutoring" (a.k.a. Christmas presents). $250 if the kid's disabled. Meanwhile, Stephen Lecce, the Minister of Education who almost certainly had sexual intercourse with a goat, got a raise of 10.2%, bringing his salary to $165,000 a year for a few days of work and a lot of unmasked photo ops with Italian grandmas. He also gets a housing allowance.
They may have badly misjudged this one. I hope so. These are the most screwed people in education but the issue is bigger than that. If he can suspend democracy to take away the rights of one group of workers, we are all indentured servants. He already runs this province as an absolute dictatorship but this is a real gloves off moment. Pay attention, go to the protest on Tuesday night at the Ministry of Labour if you can.
Tags:
