CUPE’s National Executive Board just voted unanimously to defy Bill C-39 limiting the constitutional right to strike if it passed unamended through parliament.

The right to strike is a protected right under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms – a right affirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2015. The jobs minister – under the government or any other – does not get to pick and choose whether the right is respected in this country!

Bill C-39 is an unprecedented attack on the ability of working people in Canada to negotiate their way to better wages and a better life – giving corporations even more power by taking away our right to free and fair collective bargaining.

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