Ontario education workers have a new contract. Here’s how CUPE and Doug Ford’s labour feud played out

denying OSBCU right to a legal strike ; talks resumed after Mr. Ford promised to rescind the law, but then broke down again. The two sides agreed to a tentative deal on Nov. 20 that members ratified on Dec. 5, by a vote of 73 per cent.the original demand of 11.7 per cent

; in the final agreement, the two sides agreed to 3.59 per cent, or an extra dollar per hour in each year of a four-year contract. The province’s legally imposed contract had 1.5 per cent for workers earning more than $43,000, and 2.5 per cent for those earning less.Cole Burston, Lars Hagberg and Spencer Colby/The Canadian PressThe Keeping Students in Class Act,

known as Bill 28, was passed in a 74-34 vote on Nov. 3. It forced a collective agreement on CUPE workers immediately and prohibited strikes or lockouts, levying hefty fines on those who went out anyway: up to $4,000 a day for union members and $500,000 a day for the union . Mr. Ford relented on Nov.

Queen Elizabeth II signs Canada's constitutional into law on April 17, 1982, alongside prime minister Pierre Trudeau.Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, better known as the notwithstanding clause, allows the federal or provincial parliaments to pass temporary laws that override certain constitutionally protected rights.

This was a safeguard that the Prairie provinces sought in 1981′s constitutional talks so that, in case of a dispute between elected governments and courts, the government could win as long as the people allowed it to. Quebec, for instance, has used it to make sure laws promoting French over other languages will survive a Charter challenge.Mr. Ford is the first Ontario premier to put the clause into legislation, and this was his third time doing it.

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