The Ontario government passed a law to make CUPE’s strike last fall illegal with a penalty of 10K a day for any participant. CUPE came out anyways along with support from other unions and the government didn’t do shit. IMO this is the way forward. Solidarity from other unions and large strikes in the face of back-to-work legislation. The alternative is wage freezes for a decade it seems.
The Ontario government passed a law to make CUPE’s strike last fall illegal with a penalty of 10K a day for any participant. CUPE came out anyways along with support from other unions and the government didn’t do shit. IMO this is the way forward. Solidarity from other unions and large strikes in the face of back-to-work legislation. The alternative is wage freezes for a decade it seems.
Exactly, people forget that striking at all used to be illegal, and the right to strike was won because people did it anyway, illegally.