Ontario government tables bill to repeal education-worker law

The Ford government has tabled legislation to repeal the law that imposed a contract on 55,000 education workers and banned them from striking.

The province passed the legislation on Nov. 3 in an attempt to prevent a strike, but thousands of workers walked off the job anyway, shutting hundreds of schools for in-person learning for two days.

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The government’s Bill 28 had set fines for violating the legislation at a maximum of $4,000 per employee per day and up to $500,000 per day for the union.

Premier Doug Ford offered to withdraw the legislation last week if workers from the Canadian Union of Public Employees returned to work, which they did.

The two sides have agreed to meet back at the bargaining table.