School staff want a strike. Here's what happens next

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THREAT LEVEL: STRIKE — It’s a yes. School support staff have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action if ongoing contract talks with the province break down.

At 96.5 per cent, early childhood educators, librarians, custodians, secretaries and other school support staff represented by CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions are sending the Ford government the message that “education cuts are not acceptable, that more frontline staff is urgently needed…and it’s time for a meaningful wage for us, the lowest paid education workers who earn on average $39,000 a year.”

“No one wants to strike,” CUPE-OSBCU head LAURA WALTON told reporters when revealing the results of the strike vote at Queen’s Park. “But education workers have said very clearly: If this government will not budge, we are willing to strike for a contract that is good for students, for families and for workers.”

What it means: Not necessarily a strike just yet. Talks are ongoing, but should they brea…