ONTARIO: Canada’s labour movement is celebrating the defeat of Ontario provincial premier Doug Ford’s draconian anti-worker legislation Bill 28.

The Bill would have imposed a regressive contract and stripped 55,000 Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) education workers in Ontario of fundamental rights.

CUPE’s national president Mark Hancock credited the victory to the power of worker solidarity across public and private sectors, but especially the courage and determination of education workers.