After more than 16 hours of arguments before the labour board on Nov. 5, the hearing continued the following day with both sides making their case about the ongoing strike of 55,000 Ontario education workers who walked off the job Nov. 4, closing multiple schools across the province for in-person learning.
Arguments before board chair Brian O’Byrne continued until 1:30 a.m. Nov. 6, with plans to resume a few hours later at 7 a.m. There was no word on when the Ontario Labour Board would release a decision, but O’Byrne said he anticipated the hearing would wrap up Nov. 6.
During the hearing, O’Byrne told the lawyer for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) that Ontario has the right to use the notwithstanding clause, even if it is “politically risky.”…