Cupe Strike : No School School Starting Thursday?

[jb_1801]

hey does anyone know if there is going to be a strike tommorrow [thursday] which means no schoo/?

[gilboman]

there will be school. only very few are actually not going to be operating. unless told otherwise, you are expected to go

[asim99]

there is no strike

[x86asm]

there is no strike

IT was averted?

[jb_1801]

on city pulse they said it was going to be a strike

[Princess Buttercup]

even if there was a strike only 62 or so schools would be closed. because of accent boilers.

[obernewtyn]

theres gonna be a strike but my school is open...no janitors and lunch ladies...soo its just a normal day.

[sk8]

NO strike tomorrow

[Casanova]

phew

[baller]

everyone litter their school as much as possible so they will have to close thme down just joking

[Kasakato]

No strike. They suck

[Squiggles]

From The Toronto Star:

CUPE strike off as talks continue
Feb. 22, 2006. 06:18 PM
KEITH LESLIE
CANADIAN PRESS


The Canadian Union of Public Employees has called off a planned province-wide strike over reforms to municipal workers pensions.
CUPE President Sid Ryan made the announcement just hours before tens of thousands of municipal workers were scheduled to walk off the job across Ontario.

Ryan said there have been “good, productive, constructive discussions with the government during the course of the last 24 hours.”

He said the talks with government officials over the pension legislation would continue, and hopefully conclude shortly.

Just an hour earlier, the government said it could not enter into fruitful discussions with CUPE as long as the threat of a strike remained.

CUPE members across the province had been poised to walk out at midnight tonight in a protest against legislation affecting their pension plan, expected to come to a vote tomorrow in the legislature.

Earlier today, Premier Dalton McGuinty expressed confidence that a strike could be averted.

“There’s still a lot of goodwill around, and I’m not giving up on the possibility that we might come to some understanding,” McGuinty said.

“The legislation is still moving ahead, but I fully expect that discussions will continue.”

Ryan said he was encouraged by McGuinty’s words and was hopeful the walkout wouldn’t come to pass.

“I appreciate the premier’s comments, actually, in terms of lowering the temperature a little bit,” Ryan said. “I believe we’re going to find the compromise that gets us out of this where we don’t have to have a strike.”

Ryan had insisted the union’s threshold for calling off the walkout was low, and said all he needed was a sign the government was willing to address CUPE’s concerns about the controversial pension bill.

The union had said the strike would affect workers who clean schools, staff day-care centres and water-treatment plants, plow roads and pick up trash. Other CUPE members work in long-term care facilities, libraries and public transit systems.

The Association of Municipalities of Ontario also warned there would be no way to keep roads clear in the event of a strike because many snow plow operators across Ontario are CUPE members.

The union is angry over a bill that devolves responsibility for the $40-billion Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System to municipalities and the workers.

Ryan said the changes would make it impossible for municipal workers to negotiate better pension benefits — a claim McGuinty disputed today in the legislature.

“This does not in any way compromise their rights, including their right to negotiate enhanced benefits,” McGuinty said.

“It’s all about fundamentally giving control to the workers of a pension plan over which only the provincial government has had control.”

If passed, the bill would also give emergency workers such as police and firefighters the power to negotiate supplemental benefits, which municipalities warn will lead to property tax hikes.

[i-o_o-i]

aww that sucks was hoping not to go to school for a few days

[Warped]

...which means no schoo/?

heh i wish...